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Version: v0.8.0

Analysis flow

The following steps describe the typical flow of analyzing data with H2O AutoInsights.

The following sections describe each of these steps in detail.

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H2O AutoInsights supports tabular data. Image, video, and audio data are not currently supported.

Step 1: Data transformation

In step one of the analysis flow, H2O AutoInsights lets you control the treatment of numerical (measure) and categorical (dimension) type columns.

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If you skip this step, the auto transformation engine handles the numeric to categorical conversion.

Step 2: Select columns to analyze

After transforming (or not transforming) specific columns, you can select which columns to use for the analysis. You can select columns from the following three groups:

  1. Measure
  2. Dimension
  3. Temporal

H2O AutoInsights divides the selected dataset columns into the preceding three groups based on their data type.

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During step two, H2O AutoInsights provides additional column settings to specify a reference target column to generate insights highlighting interactions between the reference column and other columns. You can customize columns for Geographic and Time-series analyses among these additional column settings. For more information, see Additional column settings.

Step 3: Review analysis settings

In step three, review analysis settings. H2O AutoInsights presents a quick overview card highlighting the following two significant points about the overall analysis H2O AutoInsights is about to run:

  1. Overview of the selected analysis types that will be part of the overall H2O AutoInsights analysis.
    • For the selected analysis types, H2O AutoInsights offers the ability to customize the analysis types settings during this step. For more information, see Analysis settings.
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      An overall H2O AutoInsights analysis is composed of other Supported analysis types.

  2. Reasons H2O AutoInsights dropped or transformed specific columns for the overall H2O AutoInsights analysis.

Step 4: Review generated insights

In step four, review the insights H2O AutoInsights generates for a particular analysis type.


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