Hi @DocMartin,
If you're looking at the Early Preview environment -- then I think you're correct. That environment is a "closed system", meant to give you some hands-on experience with the products but using only the data that's already provided within the environment.
Future distributions of SAS Viya Data Mining and Machine Learning will allow you to add your own data, of course. Exactly how you do that will depend on whether you're working with an on-premise install or cloud-hosted (by SAS or elsewhere). @Mark_sas might be able to lend a few more details.
Hi @DocMartin,
If you're looking at the Early Preview environment -- then I think you're correct. That environment is a "closed system", meant to give you some hands-on experience with the products but using only the data that's already provided within the environment.
Future distributions of SAS Viya Data Mining and Machine Learning will allow you to add your own data, of course. Exactly how you do that will depend on whether you're working with an on-premise install or cloud-hosted (by SAS or elsewhere). @Mark_sas might be able to lend a few more details.
What Chris said. 🙂
On a related note, if you go to the bottom of the main SAS Viya Web site, you'll see that SAS is taking names for those interested in a 60-day trial program. Unlike the Early Preview preproduction program, this trial program would offer the opportunity to upload your own data. The trial also has options to host on your own equipment in addition to using SAS-hosted resources.
And to be clear, when SAS Viya software is released as generally available, it will certainly be installable on your own equipment.
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