Source Nodes

Source Nodes

1. Analytic Server

   • run a stream on HDFS

2. Database

   • import data from a variety of other packages using ODBC including Microsoft SQL Server, Db2, Oracle, and others

3. Variable File

   • reads data from free-field text files
     • files whose records contain a constant number of fields but a varied number of characters.
   • useful for files with fixed-length header text and certain types of annotations

4. Fixed File

   • imports data from fixed-field text files
   • files whose fields are not delimited but start at the same position and are of a fixed length

5. Statistics File

   • reads data from the .sav or .zsav

6. Data Collection

   • imports survey data
   • Data Collection Developer Library must be installed

7. IBM Cognos

   • imports data from Cognos Analytics databases

8. IBM Cognos TM1

   • imports data from Cognos TM1 databases

9. SAS File

   • imports SAS data

10. Excel

    • .xlsx file format

11. XML

    • single file, or all files in a directory

12. User Input

    • provides a way to create synthetic data
      • from scratch or by altering existing data.
    • useful to create a test dataset for modeling

13. Simulation Generate

    • generate simulated data
    • either from scratch using user specified statistical distributions or automatically using the distributions obtained from running a Simulation Fitting node on existing historical data

14. Extension Import

15. Data View

    • used to access data sources defined in IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services analytic data views

16. Geospatial

    • bring map or spatial data

17. JSON

    • imports data from a JSON file