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Setting up data connection

Setting up data connection involves connecting your data warehouse to the platform, adding meta data, creating relationships, creating formulas and organize data into a catalog.

In this section we are going to walk you through how to set up data connections in Anlytic platform.

You can add new connection and find already existing connections overview under sources from the settings options.

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How to set up data connection?

On top of the lefthand sidebar, you can see the name of the workspaces.

  1. Click on the name of the workspace. An options menu will appear with the name of the workspaces, settings, create workspace and log out option. Click on settings. From the left-hand sidebar. Click on sources. Click on the new connection button at the top right hand corner of the screen. Select the cloud data warehouse and click on save and continue. Add the connection credentials to your database and click on save and continue.

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Your connection to the database is established. You can click on save and continue to add meta data and eventually organize the data into a catalog. To know more about how to set up meta data go to the page 'add meta data'. To know how to set up relationships between the data go to 'create data relationships' page. To know more about how you can create metrics and calculated columns go to page 'create metrics and calculated columns'. To know more how to organize your catalog go to 'create catalog page'.