Contents
About
Title Page
What’s New in SAS Visual Analytics
Accessibility Features of SAS Visual Analytics
About This Book
Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics
About SAS Visual Analytics
What Is SAS Visual Analytics?
Benefits of Using SAS Visual Analytics
How Does SAS Visual Analytics Work?
Manage Access to SAS Visual Analytics
Access to SAS Visual Analytics Capabilities
Log On to SAS Visual Analytics
Log Off from SAS Visual Analytics
SAS Visual Analytics Interface
Your First Look at the SAS Visual Analytics Home Page
About the Availability of Menus and Menu Selections in SAS Visual Analytics
Managing Your Content on the Home Page
Specifying Your Preferences
Discovering Details about Objects on the Home Page
Adding Comments to Reports and Explorations on the Home Page
Searching from the Home Page
Preparing Data
Overview of the Data Preparation Interface
About the SAS Visual Analytics Data Preparation Interface
Overview of the Data Preparation Interface
Specifying Your Preferences for the Data Preparation Interface
About Access to DBMS Data
About Exporting Code
About Jobs
About Table Metadata
Working with User-Defined Formats
Creating Prepared Data
Features in Data Preparation
Concepts in Data Preparation
Prepare Data
Joining Tables
Adding Calculated Columns
About Previewing Data
Distributing Data
Loading Data
Concepts in Loading Data
Load from HDFS
Load from Table
Unload a Table
Server Management
Features in Server Management
SAS LASR Analytic Server Concepts
Best Practices for Starting Servers and Loading Tables
What Does the In-Memory Data Tab Show?
Managing Server Description Files
Start a Server
Stop a Server
Exploring Data
Overview of SAS Visual Analytics Explorer
What Is the SAS Visual Analytics Explorer Interface?
Accessing the SAS Visual Analytics Explorer Interface
The Welcome Window
Overview of SAS Visual Analytics Explorer Interface
Opening a Data Source
Overview of Opening a Data Source
Select a Data Source
Select Columns
Reduce Your Data
Managing Data
Refresh Your Data Source
Change the Data Source for Your Visual Exploration
Managing Data Properties
Define a Geography Data Item
Working with Visualizations
Overview of Visualizations
Working with Visualizations
Managing Visualization Data Roles
Working with Filters
Working with Automatic Charts
Working with Bar Charts
Working with Line Charts
Working with Tables
Working with Crosstabs
Working with Scatter Plots
Working with Bubble Plots
Working with Histograms
Working with Box Plots
Working with Heat Maps
Working with Geo Maps
Working with Correlation Matrices
Working with Visualization Filters
About Filters
Create a Filter
Edit a Filter By Using Visual Filter Controls
Edit a Filter By Using the Edit Filter Window
Set the Scope of a Filter (Global or Local)
Remove a Filter
Reset a Filter
Exporting Data
Overview of Exporting Data
Export a Visual Exploration as a Report
Export a Visual Exploration as a PDF
Save a Visualization as an Image File
E-mail a Visual Exploration as a Link
Managing Hierarchies
Overview of Hierarchies in the SAS Visual Analytics Explorer Interface
Create a New Hierarchy
Edit a Hierarchy
Delete a Hierarchy
Managing Visual Explorations
What Is a Visual Exploration?
Create a New Visual Exploration
Saving Your Visual Exploration
Deleting Visual Explorations
Performing Data Analysis
Overview of Analyzing Your Data
Add Analysis to an Existing Visualization
Correlate Multiple Measures as a New Visualization
Specifying Your Preferences
Specifying Global Preferences
Specify Preferences That Are Specific to the Explorer Interface
Designing Reports
Overview of the Designer Interface
About the SAS Visual Analytics Designer Interface
Your First Look at the Designer Interface
Open Window
Search Window
Opening Reports
Opening Reports Created in the Designer Interface
An Example Report
Creating and Saving Reports
Creating a New Report
Basing a New Report on Report Objects Imported from One or More Existing Reports
Saving a Report
Selecting Data for Reports
Overview of Queries Based on Data Items
Adding a Data Source or Data Sources
Changing a Data Source
Removing a Data Source
Using Data Items in a Query
Modifying Data Role Assignments in Report Objects
Removing Data Assignments from Report Objects
Displaying Results in a Table, Graph, or Gauge
Using Tables, Graphs, and Gauges
Using Tables to Display Results
Using Graphs to Display Results
Using Gauges to Display Results
Adding Text and Images
Adding Comments to Report Objects
Sorting Data Items in Reports
How Sorting Can Help with Analysis
Sorting Data in a List Table
Sorting Data in a Crosstab
Sorting Data in a Graph
Working with Interactions
Overview of Interactions
Creating Interactions
Deleting Interactions
Maintaining Multi-Section Reports
Overview of Report Sections
Adding a Section to a Report
Renaming a Report Section
Deleting a Section from a Report
Moving or Dragging a Report Object to Another Section
Exporting Data from Report Objects
Overview of Exporting from the Designer Interface
Exporting Data from Report Objects
Viewing Reports
Viewing Reports on a Mobile Device
Opening the App for the First Time
Connecting to Your Library Server for the First Time
Viewing Reports in the Web Viewer
Overview of Viewing Reports in the Web Viewer
Opening a Report in the Web Viewer
Adding Comments to a Report in the Web Viewer
Managing the Environment
Working with HDFS
What Is the HDFS Content Explorer?
What Can I Do with the HDFS Content Explorer?
Navigating HDFS Folders
Adding a Table to HDFS
Deleting a Table from HDFS
Viewing HDFS System Properties
Viewing Basic File Information
Viewing Table Information
Viewing Block Information
Monitoring Resources
Utilization History
Real-Time View
Monitoring Processes
Viewing Memory and CPU Utilization
CPU and Memory Utilization by Instance
Managing Mobile Devices
Features in Mobile Device Administration
Managing Mobile Devices
SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console
Overview of the Console
About the Console
Accessing the Console
Specifying Console Preferences
Configuring Console Network Settings
Configuring Console Logging
Managing Console Users and Groups
Managing Console Users and Groups
Force Off Console Sessions
Viewing Console Logs
View Logs for an Active Session
Search Console Logs
Understanding Log Details
Managing Users and Groups
About Managing Users and Groups
Managing Users and Groups
Managing User Sessions
Perform an SSH Lockout
Managing Database Resources
Managing Active Queries and Connections
Managing Temporary Tables
Gridhosts File Management
What Is the Gridhosts File?
Managing the Gridhosts File
Glossary
Product
Release
SAS Visual Analytics
5.2
Type
Usage and Reference
Copyright Date
June 2012
Last Updated
05Jun2012