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Oracle® Big Data Discovery: Data Exploration and Analysis Guide Version 1.0.0 • Revision A • March 2015 Table of Contents Copyright and disclaimer ..........................................................2 Preface.........................................................................13 About this guide ...............................................................13 Who should use this guide ........................................................13 Conventions used in this document .................................................13 Contacting Oracle Customer Support ................................................14 Part I: Introduction to Big Data Discovery Chapter 1: Overview .............................................................16 Value of Using Big Data Discovery ..................................................16 Your tasks within Big Data Discovery ................................................17 About the Workflow in Big Data Discovery ............................................18 Find ....................................................................19 Profile and Enrich Data ......................................................21 Explore ..................................................................21 Transform ................................................................22 Discover: Analyze and Obtain Results ...........................................23 Filter, Use Guided Navigation, and Search ........................................24 Understand the Data Flow ....................................................24 Part II: Logging in and Managing Your Account Chapter 2: Getting Access to Big Data Discovery.....................................27 Options for access to Big Data Discovery .............................................27 Logging in to Big Data Discovery ...................................................27 Chapter 3: Managing Your Big Data Discovery Account ...............................29 Changing your Big Data Discovery password ..........................................30 Selecting the locale to use for Big Data Discovery.......................................31 About locales .............................................................31 Configuring the locale for your user account .......................................32 Selecting a locale from the user menu ...........................................32 Chapter 4: Using Big Data Discovery on an iPad .....................................34 Part III: Searching, Filtering, and Navigating in Big Data Discovery Chapter 5: Using Refinements for Filtering ..........................................36 About using refinements for filtering .................................................36 Oracle® Big Data Discovery: Data Exploration and Analysis Guide Version 1.0.0 • Revision A • March 2015 Table of Contents 4 Using a value list to select refinements ...............................................37 Using a range filter to select refinements .............................................41 Using date/time values for refinement................................................44 About implicit refinements ........................................................46 Chapter 6: Using the Big Data Discovery Search Feature ..............................48 About the Big Data Discovery search feature ..........................................48 Displaying and using the results of a search ...........................................48 Notes about keyword searches ....................................................56 Chapter 7: Managing Selected Refinements .........................................58 About the Selected Refinements panel ...............................................58 Removing refinements from the Selected Refinements panel...............................60 Part IV: Finding and Browsing Available Data Sets and Projects Chapter 8: About the Catalog ......................................................62 Chapter 9: Filtering and Searching Data Sets and Projects.............................63 Chapter 10: Browsing Information About Data Sets or Projects.........................65 Chapter 11: About Tags ..........................................................67 Adding and removing tags for catalog items ...........................................67 Part V: Creating, Exploring, and Deleting Data Sets Chapter 12: Creating a New Data Set ...............................................69 Loading data from a file ..........................................................69 Chapter 13: Exploring a Data Set...................................................71 About exploring a data set .......................................................71 Selecting the data to explore ......................................................71 Switching Explore between tile view and table view......................................72 Filtering and sorting the attributes in Explore...........................................72 Working with an individual attribute in Explore..........................................74 Using the scratchpad............................................................75 Chapter 14: Deleting Data Sets ....................................................80 Deleting a data set .............................................................80 Part VI: Creating and Configuring Projects Chapter 15: Creating a project .....................................................82 About projects .................................................................82 Creating a project using the Catalog.................................................82 Creating a project from within a data set .............................................83 Oracle® Big Data Discovery: Data Exploration and Analysis Guide Version 1.0.0 • Revision A • March 2015 Table of Contents 5 Chapter 16: Managing Project Pages ...............................................84 Adding a page to a project ........................................................84 Renaming a page ..............................................................84 Changing the layout of a page .....................................................85 Changing the data set binding for a page .............................................85 Deleting a page................................................................86 Chapter 17: Adding and Configuring Components ....................................87 Adding and deleting components on a page ...........................................87 Renaming components ..........................................................88