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Begginers Guide
In this guide, we will guide you through the basics of Alphacast.
- Start here to give your first steps in Alphacast.
- Downloading your first dataset, Creating your first chart, Writing your first insight and more...
Datasets
Dataset are where information is stored. Think of it as an excel spreadsheet, a Pandas Dataframe or simply as a table with rows and columns. They have one or multiple time series from one or many unique entities.
- What is the content that I can find in Alphacast?
- Alphacast hosts thousands of datasets from hundreds of publishers and sources. Find out more here
- How can I search and download data in Alphacast?
- There are many ways of discovering new data in Alphacast.
- How can I create a new Dataset?
- Uploading by hand from a CSV or XLS, automatically connecting it to a file in Google Drive, as a result of running a pipeline (read more) or Using the Python API or library. Find out more here
- Dealing with data. Filter, edit, delete, and more
- Learn how to manage and interact with datasets
- Where do I find Alphacast open-source code?
- The scripts that update Alphacast Featured datasets are open-source. Find out more here
- Datasets FAQ
- Datasets Frequently Asked Questions
Pipelines
With pipelines you can process the data within the platform. A pipeline is a sequence of steps, transformations and others to be applied to a particular dataset that has the characteristic of updating automatically every time a data is updated.
- Creating pipelines dos and donts
- General guidelines to pipelines creation
- What are the available steps and what does each one do?
- A comprehensive list of everything you can do with pipelines. Steps Library
- How can I create my own formula with the Formula Editor?
- The Formula Editor is a powerful and versatile tool that allows to create steps with complex calculations.
- Pipelines examples and tutorials
- How to Seasonally adjust your data?, how to merge datasets?, how to change frequency? see more here
- Pipelines FAQ
- Pipelines Frequently Asked Questions
Charts and Maps
With Alphacast visualization engine you can create interactive-annotated-easy-to-share-always-updated charts and maps.
- How to create a basic chart?
- Introduction to chart creation, variable selection, publishing and more
- How to create basic maps?
- Introduction to country and state maps creation
- Advanced chart customization
- Customize data, colors, texts, annotations and more
- Charts and Maps Library
- View a comprehensive list of chart / maps types that can be created with our engine
- Charts and Maps examples and tutorials
- Learn how to make the most of our chart and map engine
- Charts and Maps FAQ
- Charts and Maps Frequently Asked Questions
Reports and Dashboards
An insight is a flexible tool that allows you to create either Dashboards and Reports. Data y always up to date. You can combine text, charts, tables, or images to share your ideas.
- How can I create basic dashboard?
- Introduction to charts clipping and dashboard creation
- How can I create basic report?
- Introduction to insights creation, chart and imaged embedding, markdown editing and more
- Reports and dashboards FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions about Insights and Dashboards
Integrations
Integrate Alphacast with python, R, Excel, Power BI, Tableu and more. Learn to use our API.
- How to integrate Alphacast with Excel or Google Sheets?
- Introduction to insights creation, chart and imaged embedding, markdown editing and more
- Alphacast API Documentation
- The API allows to programmatically create repository, datasets and upload & download data from each dataset
- How to use Alphacast Python Library?
- pip install Alphacast and start your integration to python. Read more
- How to connect Alphacast to R?
- Frequently Asked Questions about Insights and Dashboards
- How to connect to STATA or Power BI?
- Connect Alphacast to third party apps very easily
Users and Security
Manage your profile. Grant permissions. Create team Workspaces.
- How can I view and edit my user profile?
- User Settings Frequently Asked questions
- How can I edit and manage my content?
- Repositories Frequently Asked Questions
- How can I create teams spaces?
- Teams Frequently Asked Questions