Introduction
This set of recipes contains tricks and shortcuts for tasks that most analysts would anticipate as central to data preparation. Two subtasks are addressed, integrate and format. The first four recipes involve aspects of integration and the last two involve aspects of format.
The first recipe makes use of the optimization settings in the Merge node. By combining this feature with some preparation steps in the stream, one can handle data sets of considerable size. The next recipe takes as its starting point the flexibility that can come from using the core features of Modeler that date back to the earliest versions. Many recently added nodes automate routine tasks, such as SetToFlag. However, many of these same tasks were possible in Modeler in earlier versions. With convenience sometimes come limitations. Shuffle Down uses this approach to produce a nonstandard aggregation. The next two recipes address typical merge conditions. Finally, the issue of formatting is addressed with...