Using Instaview to analyze and visualize data

Instaview is the latest tool to allow for fast insights into data before more intensive work is performed. With it, data from effectively any type of data source can be queried and visualized.

Note

Instaview is currently an Enterprise edition exclusive. If you do not have an Enterprise license but wish to follow along, download a 30-day trial from http://www.pentaho.com/download.

Getting ready

To be able to follow the recipe, access to the Enterprise edition of Pentaho Data Integration is required. For data, we will be using baseball player salary details that were created in Chapter 2, Reading and Writing Files. This data is provided in the code for this chapter on Packt's website.

For Instaview to work appropriately, the internal MonetDB database must be turned on. This can be done by going to the PDI installation directory and going to the /plugins/spoon/agile-bi/platform/pentaho-solutions/system/instaview/scripts directory. The standard command...