chapter four
using the data builder
The Data Builder is the SAS Visual Analytics application that lets you extract data from various sources, prepare data, and load data sets into the SAS LASR Analytic Server or other locations. If you recall from previous chapters, the LASR Analytic Server is where your data is placed before you can use it in the report building sections. Using the Data Builder, you have more flexibility with preparing and importing your data into the LASR Analytic Server. The Data Builder can also be used to create staging tables or load tables into the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
With the Data Builder, you can build queries around the data and then you can run those queries to manipulate and move the data to output ...
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