AlterYX Interview Questions
Q. Why would an organization utilize Alteryx as a tool?
The solutions offered by Alteryx are easy to learn. Alteryx allows the organizations to quickly prepare, merge, and analyze data in the given time regardless of the skillset of business intelligence the staff beholds. The feed of the datasets from multiple platforms is supported by Alteryx that can be utilized in a similar repeatable workflow. Many organizations use Alteryx to have a swift turnaround in analyzing data without creating custom codes.
Q. Explain some key features offered by Alteryx?
The primary tool offered by Alteryx is the Alteryx Designer. With the utilization of Alteryx Designer, you can easily create repeatable workflows from an interface. Alteryx Designer is easy to learn. It can connect with multiple platforms, cleanse, merge, and produce results of analytics. Various tools are included in the Alteryx Designer:
Input/Output: From locations like local desktop, access data and deliver that data in different formats
Join: Combine various data sources through a variety of tools regardless of data structures and formats
Preparation: Prepare data easily for further processing or analysis with drag and drop tools
Spatial: Offers a large amount of information for understanding things and making decisions
Predictive: Provide access to more than thirty pre-packaged tools for prediction or forecasting
Investigation: Helps analysts to understand the details of the data before starting the analysis
Parse & Transform: Assists in changing the structure and formatting of the data for further analysis
Q. What is the Viewer?
A user who can use the Alteryx for free is a viewer. A viewer is capable of running all applications that are published in the Public Alteryx Gallery.
Q. What did you bring to the #drivenbydata Summit?
#drivenbydata refers to the idea according to which Analytics is for people who bring more empowerment and better context. The decisions that are made by essential data should be democratized to everyone.
Q. What is a Member?
A user who is capable of running applications that are shared confidentially through Collections is known as a member. A Data Artisan grants a membership. The privileges of a viewer are also shared by a member to run all applications that are published in the Public Alteryx Gallery.
Q. What is Data Artisan?
A user who generates applications for analytics utilizing the Alteryx Designer Desktop and then shares them in the Alteryx Analytics Gallery publicly and privately is known as a Data Artisan. A Data Artisan shares the privileges of a member.
Q. What is the procedure to change a word or character or completely removing it?
To change a word or character or completely removing it, you have to go to the File Menu. Then, go to Open Sample. In Open Sample, you have to go to the Basic Samples. After this, go to Data Problem and Solution Flexibility.
Q. What are the requirements that are needed to publish applications in the Alteryx Analytics Gallery?
A private Studio is required to publish applications from the Alteryx Designer Desktop. The people who have the license of the Designer Desktop have the Studio automatically. The users who are on the trial of the Designer Desktop can set up a 30-Day Studio Free Trial.
Q. What is essential in building applications?
Alteryx Designer Desktop is required to build applications. You can download the Free Trial of Alteryx Designer Desktop.
Q. What is required to run an application in a private collection?
To run applications shared in private collections, you must be a Member of it. Data Artisans are users who create and share applications. They also grant memberships in a private collection.
Q. How can you save an expression ?
Expressions can be saved so that they can be used over and over again without having to create them from scratch.
Create your expression using a combination of selecting variables and inserting them into functions . Once you are happy with the formulated expression, click the Saved Expression tab. Hit the Save button and specify a name for your expression. Your expression is now saved for future use.
Q. You received the following error, “No Values found before GetMean()” – What does this mean?
Check your configurations upstream. If there is an Allocate Append tool, be sure the spatial object specified in the drop down selection is a polygon object and NOT a point object. If the error is coming from a Reporting Map tool, ensure you are not choosing Smart Tiling on a String field as a Thematic mapping tile mode.
Q. How can you change a word or a character or remove it?
From the File menu, go to Open Sample –> Basic Samples –> Data Problem and Solution Flexibility
Q. What Is A Viewer?
A Viewer is a free user of the Analytics Gallery. A Viewer can run all applications published in the Public Gallery.
Q. What Is A Member?
A Member is a user who can run applications that are shared privately through Collections. A Membership is granted by a Data Artisan. A Member also shares the privileges of a Viewer to run all applications published in the Public Gallery.
Q. What Is A Data Artisan?
A Data Artisan is a user who creates analytic applications using the Alteryx Designer Desktop and then shares them publicly and/or privately in the Analytics Gallery. A Data Artisan also shares the privileges of a Member.
Q. What Is Required To Run Applications In The Public Gallery?
Anyone can sign up and become a Viewer, with the ability to run all applications in the Public Gallery, for free. As soon as you confirm your email, you will have access to the Public Gallery.
Q. What Is Required To Publish Applications In The Analytics Gallery?
Applications are published from the Alteryx Designer Desktop into a private Studio.
A Studio is automatically created for license holders of the Designer Desktop.
Trial users of the Designer Desktop can set up a Studio with a 30-Day Studio Free Trial
A user with the Designer Desktop and a private Studio is known as a Data Artisan.
Q. How Do I Run An Application?
Click on the title of an application to view application details and click the Run button; or simply click the icon.
Configure the application to suit your needs. Depending upon the application, you might be prompted to enter an address for geocoding, to input a customer file for demographic analysis, or to select data from a range of choices that apply to your business.
Click the Run button at the bottom of the application.
Q. What Kinds Of Reports Can An Application Create?
Depending upon how the application was built, it may produce Word, Excel, HTML, and/ or PDF files, containing a variety of text, tables, charts and maps.
Q. What Kinds Of Tabular And Spatial Data Output Can An Application Create?
Depending upon how the application was built, it may produce CSV, MDB/ ACCDB, DBF, FlatFile, MID/ MIF, SHP, TAB, YXDB, and/or KML files.
Q. What Browsers Are Supported By The Analytics Gallery?
Internet Explorer (IE8 or higher)
Firefox
Google Chrome
Safari
Q. How do you turn annotations on and off?
Per Tool: You can turn them on/off per tool, meaning you want to keep some annotations while omitting others. To do this click on the individual tool. Go to Annotation from the Properties window and in the Display Mode, select the appropriate choice.
Per Module: There is a toggle switch on the Module Properties window where you can either turn all the annotations on or off for that particular module. Additionally you can have greater control leaving this feature on and controlling the annotations per tool as described above.
Through Global Settings: You can set up the global settings so that Annotations will appear the same way for each and every module and tool.
Q.How can you save an expression?
Expressions can be saved so that they can be used over and over again without having to create them from scratch.
Create your expression using a combination of selecting variables and inserting them into functions. Once you are happy with the formulated expression, click the Saved Expression tab. Hit the Save button and specify a name for your expression. Your expression is now saved for future use.
Q. How can you change a field type?
Primarily the best place to change a field’s type is through the Formula tool. There is more control for custom conversion through the formula tool.
The next best place to change a field’s type is the Select tool or, there are a number of tools that have an embedded select within the tool.
Therefore you can change a field’s type there as well. Tools that contain an embedded select are: Join, Join Multiple, Append Fields, Spatial Match, and Find Nearest.
Q. Why did Alteryx decide to integrate R for predictive analytics over other programming?
Integration of R allows Alteryx to utilize a third-party solution that many users may already have had exposure too as well as enhance the analytical capabilities by including predictive modeling and spatial analytics.
The predictive analytics become part of the entire workflow in Alteryx which results in a quicker turnaround in getting the end results.
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