Contour¶
Contour provides a point-and-click user interface to perform data analysis on tables at scale. These analyses can be used to create interactive dashboards that allow others to explore and investigate the data in a guided, structured way.
Key features¶
Contour enables you to:
- Visualize, filter, and transform data without code.
- Organize complex analyses into analytical paths.
- Parameterize analyses to easily switch between different views of the data and results.
- Create interactive dashboards to share findings.
- Save analysis results as a new dataset for use in other Foundry tools.
- Leverage Contour's expression language for more advanced transformations and aggregations.
When to use Contour¶
Contour is a good fit for analytical use cases where:
- Some or all of the data you want to use is not mapped in the Ontology. In general, we recommend using the Ontology layer whenever possible, but there are some cases where this may not be appropriate (such as a one-time upload that will not be cleaned or reused).
- You need to operate on a very large dataset. For instance, performing joins on over 100,000 objects or aggregations on over 50,000 rows.
- You want to share your analysis results as a new dataset for use in other Foundry tools. Learn more about saving results as a dataset.
Learn more about other tools available for point-and-click analysis and when to use each.
:::callout{theme="success" title="Palantir Learning portal"} For a deep dive into data analysis in Contour, visit learn.palantir.com ↗. :::
中文翻译¶
Contour¶
Contour 提供了一种点击式用户界面，可对大规模数据表进行数据分析。这些分析可用于创建交互式仪表板（dashboard），让他人以引导式、结构化的方式探索和调查数据。
主要功能¶
Contour 使您能够：
- 无需编写代码即可对数据进行可视化、筛选和转换。
- 将复杂分析组织成分析路径（analytical path）。
- 对分析进行参数化，以便在不同视图的数据和结果之间轻松切换。
- 创建交互式仪表板以分享分析发现。
- 将分析结果保存为新数据集，供其他 Foundry 工具使用。
- 利用 Contour 的表达式语言（expression language）进行更高级的转换和聚合操作。
何时使用 Contour¶
Contour 适用于以下分析场景：
- 您要使用的部分或全部数据未映射到本体（Ontology）中。 通常，我们建议尽可能使用本体层（Ontology layer），但在某些情况下这可能并不合适（例如，一次性上传且无需清理或复用的数据）。
- 您需要对非常大的数据集进行操作。 例如，对超过 100,000 个对象执行连接操作，或对超过 50,000 行数据进行聚合。
- 您希望将分析结果作为新数据集分享，供其他 Foundry 工具使用。 了解如何将结果保存为数据集。
:::callout{theme="success" title="Palantir 学习门户"} 如需深入了解 Contour 中的数据分析，请访问 learn.palantir.com ↗。 :::