Assigning Data to Roles

To run the Characterize Data task, you must select an input data source. To filter the input data source, click .

You must also select at least one variable to characterize. This task uses automatic characterization to determine the type for your variable. However, you can override this characterization by using the Custom Characterization options. For example, in the Sashelp.Class data set, Age is automatically treated as a numeric variable. You could override this characterization and specify that Age should be treated as a categorical variable. As a result, the task treats each value of Age as a group.