Accessing Data

If the data that you want to prepare is not already loaded in SAS Visual Analytics, then you can import it into the SAS Visual Analytics environment. Here are the types of data that you can import:
  • a file from your local machine (for example, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, a delimited text file (CSV), or a SAS data set)
  • a SAS data set on a server
  • a table from a database (for example, a server database or a Hadoop database)
  • data from social media and other sources (for example, Facebook, Google Analytics, or Twitter)
To import data, click Filethen selectImport Data. In the Import Data window, click the type of data that you want to import.
For more information about accessing data, see SAS Visual Analytics: Getting Started with Data on Windows.