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Alteryx and Tableau, yin and yang

September 1, 2015 by Ted Cuzzillo

Many of those who watch the amazing acrobatics in Tableau or other visualization tool find there’s one more spectacle to come: setting up the data — cleaning it, fixing incomplete sets, combining sources, and so on. Only when that’s over can real analysis commence.

Many advanced users still prefer to use a specialized tool for prep. Strong contenders have appeared for graduates of Excel, including Paxata and Trifacta. But it’s Alteryx I finally got a look at not so long ago.

I was curious about Alteryx. It seems to have become the go-to among advanced users of Tableau, which at first seemed odd.… Read the rest “Alteryx and Tableau, yin and yang”

Filed Under: analysis & methods Tagged With: Alteryx, Dan Putler, data analysis, Joe Mako, Tableau 1 Comment

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