Einstein analytics basics
- 1. Farmington Hills Salesforce Developer User Group Salesforce Apex Hours:- Basics of Einstein Analytics #SalesforceApexHours #FarmingtonHillsSFDCDug Speaker :- Jitendra Zaa & Amit Chaudhary Date :- Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:00 AM EST Venue/Link :- Online
- 2. Who am I ? Amit Chaudhary • Active on Salesforce Developer Community • Blogging at http://amitsalesforce.blogspot.in/ • Co-Organizer of :- FarmingtonHillsSFDCDug
- 3. Speaker Jitendra Zaa Sr. Technical Architect Bluewolf 20 Salesforce Certifications Author - Apex Design Pattern Salesforce MVP 10+ years in Salesforce Blog - https://JitendraZaa.com Follow - @JitendraZaa
- 4. Agenda ▶ What is Einstein Analytics ▶ Terminology ▶ Importing Dataset ▶ Creating Lenses ▶ Creating Dashboard ▶ Dashboard Tips and Tricks ▶ Steps ▶ Cross-Dataset filter (Connect DataSet) ▶ Dataflow Performance Improvement ▶ View SAQL ▶ Q&A
- 5. Overview ▶ Einstein Analytics processes data using EtLT approach. ▶ Extraction, transformation, Loading in Analytics, Transformation in Analytics
- 6. Terminologies ▶ App - Analog to folder ▶ DataSet - Formatted and Optimized data ▶ Lenses - Saved exploration from Dataset ▶ Measure - Numeric fields (any field that can be measured) ▶ Dimension - Group By ▶ Filter - Condition ▶ Grains - One row of denormalized data ▶ SAQL - Salesforce Analytics Query Language based on pigql ▶ Pigql - Apache Pig Latine Query Language used in Hadoop as well ▶ SFDCDigest - Deriving Data ▶ Augment - Joint between digest ▶ Faceting - Updating filter to change dashboard content
- 7. How many ways to create Dataset ▶ DataFlow - Using Add Dataset in DF ▶ Create Dataset Button ▶ JSON ▶ Recipe
- 8. Fun Facts Can you restore DataFlow ? No. That's why download and Backup JSON frequently Can you restore Dataset ? Yes. Salesforce maintains version of Dataset. Navigate to Dataset dropdown, at bottom of page, there is link to restore dataset.
- 9. How many ways to see JSON of dashboard 1. Press Ctrl/cmd + E 2. In URL, replace “edit” by “JSON” https://jitendrazaa15-dev- ed.my.salesforce.com/analytics/wave/wave.apexp?tsid=02u460000010swy#dashboard/0FK46000000Cws5G AC/edit
- 10. Best Practice Data Replicator
- 11. Data Replication ▶ Decouples the extract of Salesforce data from your dataflows, letting you run it on a separate schedule ▶ As it runs ahead of time, Dataflow performs faster ▶ To make it more faster, extraction done in incremental order ▶ Few other connector gets available once we enable replication To enable it - Navigate to Setup | Analytics | enable Replicator Make sure to visit Considerations and Limitations
- 13. After Replicator
- 15. Reference and other reads ▶ Create Einstein Analytics developer org ▶ Youtube Channel - Let’s Play Salesforce ▶ Youtube Channel - Jitendra Zaa ▶ Trailhead Trailmix - Einstein Analytics ▶ Basics of Wave Blog Post ▶ Apache Pig Wiki ▶ SAQL Reference ▶ Dataflow filter Syntax ▶ Dataflow documentation
- 16. Q&A
- 17. Thank You