Smart ETL with Data Prep: Detect Sentiment in Three Steps

The next-generation data platform is now generally available in Winter ‘21, and that means you get to embed sentiment analysis directly within your Data Prep Recipes! What is Sentiment Analysis in Data Prep? Data Prep introduces a new data transformation step, “Detect Sentiment”, that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning to extract sentiments ...

Uploading datasets via CLI

A while back I wrote a blog on how to export datasets from Tableau CRM (Einstein Analytics) using Salesforce CLI and a plugin from Mohan Chinnappan. It seems Mohan’s plugin was well received and he has since expanded on it to upload csv files to Tableau CRM. This is powerful if you want to update ...

Cloud-native Data Prep of the future: A closer look

The Einstein Analytics Data Manager supplies fresh data to your Einstein Analytics dashboards and Einstein Discovery stories for actionable insights. Salesforce has made significant investments in the Data Manager platform as our customers process higher data volumes in the scale of dozens of trillions of rows every month in roughly equal parts Salesforce data and ...

An introduction to the data manager

Working with Einstein Analytics I often hear people finding the data manager the most challenging part to learn. Perhaps because when people work with dashboards in core Salesforce we don’t have to shape our data the same way, we simply need to understand what objects we want to use in our report or dashboard. There ...