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SAP Lumira Essentials

SAP Lumira Essentials

By : Dmitry Anoshin
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SAP Lumira Essentials

SAP Lumira Essentials

3.5 (6)
By: Dmitry Anoshin

Overview of this book

SAP Lumira allows you to combine data from multiple sources into a single view and create engaging visualizations quickly and easily. It is a reporting platform that helps users access data and independently perform analysis. With the increasing interest in data discovery, self-service BI, and visualization around the world, tools like SAP Lumira help to eliminate the complexities of analyzing and discovering data. Learn data discovery techniques, build amazing visualizations, create fantastic stories, and share your visualizations through an electronic medium with one of the most powerful tools around—SAP Lumira. You will begin with an overview of the SAP Lumira family of products. You will then go through various data discovery techniques using real-world scenarios of an online e-commerce retailer through detailed recipes on the installation, administration, and customization of SAP Lumira. Next, you will work with data, starting from acquiring data from various data sources, then preparing and visualizing it using the rich functionality of SAP Lumira. Finally, you will present data via a data story or infographic and publish it across your organization or on the World Wide Web.
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Enriching data

SAP Lumira offers you various methods to enrich your dataset by adding measures, geography hierarchies, and time hierarchies. Measures allow you to easily manipulate calculations, and hierarchies allow you to use a natural grouping of related columns.

SAP Lumira detects columns that are potential measures, time hierarchies, and geography hierarchies when we acquire data.

The time hierarchy

By default, we have only Sales Date, but for a detailed historical analysis, we need to analyze various date dimensions, such as year, month, week, and so on.

Let's create the time hierarchy for Sales Date with the following steps:

  1. Click on the option menu for the Sales Date dimension:
    The time hierarchy
  2. Then select Create a time hierarchy....
  3. SAP Lumira will create new date dimensions as follows:
    The time hierarchy

The geographical hierarchy

Modern analytics tools provide us with the opportunity to look at data from the geographical perspective. It gives us lots of advantages: for example, we can easily measure the region that...

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