How to Clean Data Without Manual Edits & Preserve Data Integrity

The secret is out: 44% of the time is zapped every week because analysts can’t optimize their day.
When you get to the good part—the “analyzing”—you’re out of gas and out of time. In spreadsheets, cleaning is a manual process. Parsing, creating columns, deleting rows, and removing white space, takes eons.

But there’s a bigger issue. All that cutting and pasting and renaming don’t just take a crazy amount of time—it’s also an invitation to make mistakes. Miscalculations, mental errors, and duplicate records in these early stages can send your analysis careening in the wrong direction.

Data integrity should be your biggest concern in the cleaning stage. You need to be confident in the accuracy and consistency of data, no matter where you move it or how you change its format.

Instead of mind-numbing clicks, what if data cleansing were just one or two? In Alteryx, you can create new columns, remove unneeded ones, change data types, and clean up every white space and unwanted character in between. All with a few simple tools that apply instantly across your entire data set.

Meet the Text to Columns, Select, and Cleanse Tools in Alteryx. With the Text to Columns Tool, you can tidy up your data to deliver insights. With the Select Tool, you can put to rest the mindless manual deletion, rearranging, and reformatting of fields. All these things are handled in an elegant way that is completely retraceable. And what about errant characters and unwanted white space that throw off your analysis? With the Cleanse Tool you can completely eliminate these with a few simple parameters.

Never again start from scratch. Alteryx shows your work every step of the way. With Alteryx, data cleaning virtually eliminates manual processes and human error, freeing you up for more important things. It’s time to rethink the manual approach. Ditch the Spreadsheets. Life is Easier with Alteryx.