What Is SAS Visual Analytics Explorer?

SAS Visual Analytics Explorer (the explorer) is a component of SAS Visual Analytics that enables you to explore your data sources. You can explore your data by using interactive visualizations such as charts, histograms, and tables. You can also apply data analysis such as forecasting, correlation, and fit lines.

Your work in the explorer is saved as a metadata object called an exploration. An exploration (sometimes called a visual exploration) contains all of the visualizations, data settings, and filters from your explorer session.

You can use the explorer to explore in-memory tables from the SAS LASR Analytic Server. You can either open a table directly or you can open a saved exploration.

If SAS Visual Statistics is licensed at your site, then you can perform statistical modeling tasks in the explorer. For more information, see Getting Started with SAS Visual Statistics.

You can export your exploration results as reports, which can be refined in SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) or viewed directly. Reports can be viewed on a mobile device or in the SAS Visual Analytics Viewer (the viewer).

You can save your explorations as PDF documents, share your saved explorations via e-mail, and export your visualizations as image files. You can export the data from your visualizations to a data file that you can use in other tools.