Getting Started Guide

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Creating Data Objects Overview

In the Analyst tool, a data object is a representation of data based on a flat file or relational database table. You create a flat file or table object and then run a profile against the data in the flat file or relational database table. When you create a flat file data object in the Analyst tool, you can upload the file to the flat file cache on the machine that runs the Analyst tool or you can specify the network location where the flat file is stored.

Story

HypoStores keeps the Los Angeles customer data in flat files. HypoStores needs to profile and analyze the data and perform data quality tasks.

Objectives

In this lesson, you complete the following tasks:

Upload the flat file to the flat file cache location and create a data object.

Preview the data for the flat file data object.

Prerequisites

Before you start this lesson, verify the following prerequisites:

You have completed lesson 1 in this tutorial.

You have the LA_Customers.csv flat file. You can find this file in the <Installation Root Directory>\<Release Version>\clients\DeveloperClient\Tutorials folder.