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Analyzing numeric fields - Alteryx Tutorial
From the course: Alteryx for Healthcare
Analyzing numeric fields
In the previous video, we generated summary statistics for the insurance firm customers in our dataset. We will now continue analyzing the data in a build up towards building a Regression model to estimate the expenses. For our next step, let's head over to the Preparation palette and from here, drag and drop the Select tool into our canvas and the output from the Auto Field step will be fed in here. As for the configuration of the Select tool, the only change we are going to make from the default of selecting all and leaving the types unchanged is to set the type for the children column to V_string. Over the next few minutes, we will be performing some analysis of the different numeric fields in our dataset. And for that, let's leave out the children column by classifying it as a non numeric value. As always, let's launch the workflow and then take a look at the output Metadata from this Select tool, we'll need to make the switch to the output, and here we can see that the type for…
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