Navigate to Data Refinery

1. Access Data Refinery from within a project. Click the Assets tab.

2. Click New asset > Prepare and visualize data.

   • Click Browse from local to upload a new data asset.
   • Click Select from project to select a previously uploaded data asset or a connection.

   Data asset:

   • Select a data file (the selection includes data files that were already shaped with Data Refinery)
   • Select a connected data asset

   Connection:

   • Select a connection and file
   • Select a connection, folder, and file
   • Select a connection, schema, and table or view
     
     

   Data Refinery supports these file types: Avro, CSV, delimited text files, JSON, Microsoft Excel (xls and xlsx formats. First sheet only, except for connections and connected data assets.), Parquet, SAS with the "sas7bdat" extension (read only), TSV (read only)

   Data Refinery operates on a sample subset of rows in the data set. The sample size is 1 MB or 10,000 rows, whichever comes first. However, when you run a job for the Data Refinery flow, the entire data set is processed. If the Data Refinery flow fails with a large data asset, see workarounds in Troubleshooting Data Refinery.

   Data connections marked with a key icon () are locked. If you are authorized to access the data source, you are asked to enter your personal credentials the first time you select it. This one-time step permanently unlocks the connection for you. After you have unlocked the connection, the key icon is no longer displayed. See Adding connections to projects.

3. Enter a name and optional description.

4. Click Create to load the data into Data Refinery.

Next steps

• Refine your data
• Validate your data
• Use visualizations to gain insights into your data

Parent topic: Refining data