Consuming in the data marketplace

All the data products that you have access to via spaces are visible in your Catalog view. To make the certified and trusted data products available more widely to your organization, they need to be activated on the Data marketplace.

Activating a data product to the data marketplace

1. From the launcher menu , select Data products.
2. Click the data product you want to activate.
3. Click Activate.

   The Activate data product dialog opens

   

4. From the Sharing policy drop-down list, select a managed space in which the data product will be published.

   Activating a data product on the data marketplace actually publishes a copy in the managed space that you select during activation. So all users that are part of this managed space will see the activated data product both in their catalog and in the data marketplace.

5. In the Names, Description, and Tags fields, review or edit the information entered during the data product creation.

6. After looking at the Preview, click Activate.

The data product has now an active version on the data marketplace. As the owner of the data product, you will see in your catalog both the main data product, and the published copy.

When browsing the data marketplace, you will see the main data products in their original spaces.

Deactivating a data product

When you want to update a data product or if it's no longer relevant, you need to deactivate it.

1. From Data products, click the data product to deactivate.
2. Click the three dots menu icon on the top right of the data product.
3. Click Deactivate.
4. In the confirmation dialog that opens, click Deactivate again.

Even if your data product has been used as source for one or more analytics applications, you can safely deactivate it and the application will still work.

Updating an active data product

When you edit a data product that is activated to a managed space, your changes are not automatically published to the marketplace. The changes remain in your main data product until you update the marketplace copy.

To update the marketplace copy:

1. Edit the data product as needed.
2. See Updating the data product in the marketplace for instructions to update the marketplace.

The marketplace copy remains stable and read-only until you republish. Any existing applications based on the data product continue to work with the previous version until you update the marketplace copy.

Consuming a data product

When you have found a data product with the data that corresponds to your needs, you can directly create an analytics application from it or consume it through APIs.

For more information about the API endpoints, see Consuming data products through APIs.

To create an analytics application:

1. From the data marketplace, open the data product of your choice.
2. Click Use in > Application on the top right.

   The Create a new application dialog opens.

   From the Use in dropdown list, you can also use the data product in a table recipe, data flow, script, or ML experiment.

3. In the corresponding field, enter a Name for the application.

4. From the corresponding drop-down list, select in which Space you want to save the application.

5. Add a Description to document the purpose of the application.

6. Add some Tags to the application to make it easier to find.

7. Click Next. You are redirected to the list of datasets included in the data product. They are selected by default.

8. If needed, clear datasets' check boxes to exclude them, and click Next.

9. Review the summary of the selected data. You can click each individual dataset to get a preview of the fields they contain.

10. Optionally select the Open application check-box to directly view the application once it’s created.

11. Click Load into application.

The analytics application has been created and is empty for now. You can start adding sheets and work on the application. For more information, see Creating analytics and visualizing data.