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Analyzing sales data in Alteryx

Analyzing sales data in Alteryx

Test your Alteryx skills on four real-world datasets focusing on retail sales data. Using Alteryx Designer, you'll prepare, blend, and analyze data to answer questions about sales trends and performance. This will help you to identify key drivers of sales success, enabling informed business decisions and strategic planning.

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Your challenge

  • What were the 10 most profitable orders?
  • What day of the week is most profitable, and by how much?
  • How do the profits vary by category and region?
  • What sub-categories contributed to the most profit in each category?
  • Don't feel limited by these questions, you're encouraged to use your skills and creativity to make your workflow your own. Summarize your findings in an executive summary.

How to get started

Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.

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Start bu clicking any of the Start buttons to begin
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Follow the instructions in the workbook
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Publish your work for review
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Share your publication to get upvoted

Judging criteria

Executive summary (25%)

  • Clarity of writing down your main findings.

Insights (25%)

  • Quality of recommendations - are appropriate analytical techniques used & are the conclusions valid? Is the methodology clear?

Workflow design (30%)

  • Is the workflow built efficiently? Is the workflow well-structured and presented nicely?

Public upvotes (20%)

  • Upvoting - most upvoted entries get the most points.

Rules

  • Entries to the competition take the form of a workbook publication. Make sure the competition publication is publicly visible in order to be entered into the competition.
  • Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
  • The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
  • Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
  • Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
  • You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.

Note: Please make sure you're 18+ years old and are allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from your country.

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