The Profile node provides statistical summaries and visual insights for selected columns in a dataset. It helps users understand distributions, missing values, and basic metrics before further transformations.

Pipeline → Data Preparation → Profile

• Only a single predecessor is allowed.

• Predecessor must output tabular data.

• Works with all RDBMS datasets, template file readers, and template table readers.

• Features can be selected only from the property pane.

• Selected columns appear visually inside the Profile node.

• Works after renaming, filtering, or metadata refresh.

On execution, the node calculates basic statistics for each selected column.

Statistics and charts appear in Explore view → Result tab.

• Missing Values

• Missing Value %

• Mean

• Std

• Min

• Max

• Freq

• Top

• Unique

• For categorical/geographical/interval columns → Mean, Std, Min, Max = None

• For numerical columns → Freq, Top, Unique = None