Chapter 11: Advanced Topics – Creating Advanced Data Items
11.1 Introduction
As discussed in Chapter 3, SAS Visual Analytics enables you to calculate new data items from your existing data items by using an expression. For example, you might want to calculate a company’s profits by subtracting expenses from revenues. In addition to performing mathematical calculations on numeric values, you can use calculated data items to create date and time values. For example, if your data contains separate categories for month, day, and year, then you can calculate a date value from those categories. To recap:
● All calculations are performed on unaggregated data. The calculation expression is evaluated for each row in the data source before aggregations ...
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