Statistical Processing
Upcoming Classes
Online
Instructor-led online training
Location | Jul 2022 | Aug 2022 | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 | Nov 2022 | Dec 2022 | Jan 2023 |
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APAC Singapore - Virtual |
Jul 6 Jul 21 |
Aug 3 |
Sep 12 |
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AMER Eastern Time - Virtual |
Jul 11 |
Aug 8 Aug 13 | |||||
AMER Eastern Time - Virtual (Spanish) |
Jul 25 |
Aug 16 | |||||
EMEA UK Time - Virtual |
Jul 25 | ||||||
APAC Sydney - Virtual |
Aug 8 |

Summary
This three-hour course is for power users who want to identify and use transforming commands and eval functions to calculate statistics on their data. Topics will cover data series types, primary transforming commands, mathematical and statistical eval functions, using eval as a function, and the rename and sort commands.
Objectives
Topic 1 – What is a Data Series
- Introduce data series
- Explore the difference between single-series, multi-series, and time series data series
Topic 2 – Transforming Data
- Use the chart, timechart, top, rare, and stats commands to transform events into data tables
- Explore search modes and their effect on search results
Topic 3 – Manipulating Data with eval Command
- Understand the eval command
- Explore and perform calculations using mathematical and statistical eval functions
- Perform calculations and concatenations on field values
- Use the eval command as a function with the stats command
Topic 4 – Formatting Data
- Use the rename command
- Use the sort command