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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By : Bo Borland
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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By: Bo Borland

Overview of this book

<p>Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB will teach you MongoDB and Pentaho integration points and developer skills needed to create turnkey analytic solutions that deliver insight and drive value for your organization.<br /><br />Starting with how to install, configure, and develop content in both Pentaho and MongoDB, this book will give you the complete range of skills needed to gain insight into MongoDB data using Pentaho Business Analytics.&nbsp; You will learn about MongoDB data models and query techniques, which are covered in combination with the provided sample MongoDB database. You then advance to data integration, analysis, and reporting using Pentaho.<br /><br />You will learn how to use Pentaho Data Integration to blend and enrich data from additional sources. From this blended data, you will develop professional-looking reports and analysis views that are visual and interactive. Lastly, we will cover the Pentaho web portal and web interfaces for deploying analytics out to a broader set of consumer users.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Opening an existing Instaview


At this point, you should have created, saved, and closed the Clickstream Instaview. We need to reopen Clickstream to make modifications to the initial design. To open a saved Instaview, launch Instaview, and on the Welcome screen, you will see an Open Existing button. Click on Open Existing and choose the Clickstream Instaview file you created in the previous chapter. You can have only one Instaview file open at any one time. The Instaview file contains the following six objects:

  1. A new data source connection to MongoDB

  2. A defined sample size

  3. A data integration transformation to extract data from MongoDB and load it into the in-memory data cache

  4. A metadata model to define dimensions and measures

  5. An in-memory database table containing the data cache

  6. Analyzer views for visualizing data in a table or chart

These six objects are bundled together into a single Instaview file. The corresponding object locations are highlighted red and numbered in the following screenshot...