Leveraging Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a data sculpting tool that works within the scope of a single dataset and enables a mixture of SQL/Excel-like functions to be applied to datasets to create new calculated columns. Beast Mode values only live in the Adrenaline cache. They are a good place to put business logic and transformations that are closely associated with a single dataset. Examples of common Beast Mode function types are aggregate, date and time, mathematical, string, and logical.

Next, let's take a tour of Beast Mode Manager.

Touring Beast Mode Manager

Beast Mode Manager is where you can create and find Beast Modes across all datasets. Let's quickly walk through the Beast Mode Manager page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.7 – The Beast Mode Manager page

Let's look at the main features of the Beast Mode Manager page:

• Beast Mode Manager Access: This is the icon you click on to get to Beast Mode Manager...