Detailed Course Outline
Topic 1 - Manipulating Output
- Convert a 2-D table into a flat table with the untable command
- Convert a flat table into a 2-D table with the xyseries command
Topic 2 - Modifying Result Sets
- Append data to search results with the appendpipe command
- Calculate event statistics with the eventstats command
- Calculate "streaming" statistics with the streamstats command
- Modify values to segregate events with the bin command
Topic 3 - Managing Missing Data
- Find missing and null values with the fillnull command
Topic 4 - Modifying Field Values
- Understand the eval command
- Use conversion and text eval functions to modify field values
- Reformat fields with the foreach command
Topic 5 - Normalizing with eval
- Normalize data with eval functions
- Identify eval functions to use for data and field normalization