Advanced Data Preparation

This course picks up where Introduction to Data Preparation leaves off, covering all the remaining interactive data-preparation and reporting functions; that is, those functions that have a point-and-click interface.

Duration: ½ day

Audience:

• Data architects
• Advanced end users

and other individuals who want access to broader functionality than is covered in the introductory course.

Prerequisites

Prior attendance at one of

• Introduction to Data Preparation (Quadstone System Version 5)
• Data Preparation with Decisionhouse (Quadstone System Version 4)

Topics covered

• Overview of data-build and reporting operations in the Quadstone System
• Building customer analysis datasets
• Interactive tools for data preparation
• Importing and exporting data
• Flat files: the full story
• Customizing your SQL queries
• Export choices
• Transforming data
• Sorting and deriving
• Transaction measurement (aggregation or data rollup)
• The purpose of measurement
• Specifying transaction measurements using Transaction Measurement Language (TML)
• Creating Customer Aggregates
• Aggregating over a subset of transactions
• Segmenting Customer Aggregates
• Combining datasets
• Join, append, merge and lookup
• Enhancing datasets by adding metadata
• Reporting
• Models, crosstabs and data audits

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