Einstein Analytics: Demystifying Bindings – Part 8

Einstein Analytics: Demystifying Bindings – Part 8

This blog series has almost come to an end. From part 1 of this blog series I have tried to demystify the binding syntax and come with different examples of how to use data selection and data serialization, and I hope bindings have become a little more approachable than before. But there is another layer of complexity to bindings that sometimes proves helpful, I am talking about data manipulation functions.

What is data manipulation?

First of all, let me be clear, you do not always need to add a data manipulation function to your binding, this is by no means mandatory when writing a binding, which hopefully doesn’t come as a surprise if you have been following this binding series. So with that said, what is data manipulation?

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