1. Import Data

2. Update Data Import Setting

3. Re-Import (Re-load) Data

File import

• CSV - Comma Separated Files

• TSV - Tab Separated Files

• Delimited Files

• Excel

• Statistical Files - SPSS / SAS / STATA

• R Data Files - RDS, RData

• JSON

Databases

• Amazon Redshift

• PostgreSQL

• HP Vertica

• MySQL

• MariaDB

• Google BigQuery

• MongoDB

Cloud Apps

• Google Analytics

• Google Spreadsheet

• Twitter

• Github Issues

Others

• REST APIs / Remote JSON

• Web Page Scraping

Custom Data with R Script

You can create your own custom data sources by writing R Script or using R packages like quantmod for financial data, gtrend for Google Trend, Rfacebook.

User Defined Plugin

You can hook up your custom data source to Exploratory's Data Import Dialog UI by writing a plugin definition file (with data source definition like input parameters, underlying R function name, etc) with JSON format and corresponding R Script.