Getting started with River
These videos use the "Getting started" model from the example models page.
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Open models and find help
How to create River models, open existing models, customize the location of panels and find help.
Navigate the model map
Learn to move around with the model map, create, connect and delete components.
Understand the component icons
Understand the role of the 3 icons on each component: configuration, data and calculation status, data quality checks.
Using data in River
These videos use the "Getting started" model from the example models page.
Visualize model data
Learn how to view data that is used as River input, intermediary transformed data, or output.
Import data into River
Learn the different methods to get data into River: dynamically-linked from Excel Tables or from CSV files.
Export data from River
Understand how to get data from River into Excel, and how to use it in further Excel with charts, PivotTables and formulas by creating a small P&L model.
Coming soon!
Building models
A simple model: the Berkshire Hathaway quarterly position changes
This model illustrates:
- The basic structure of a model in River
- Data import
- Data validation and data quality checks
- Combining multiple tables with the Lookup component
- Creating new formula columns
- Using the output of a model in a basic model.
Coming soon!
A medium complexity model: the P&L model
This model illustrates:
- How to use a Forecast Horizon component
- How to create and use Assumptions
- How to create and use Scenarios, including comparing across scenarios
- How to link more complex Excel formulas to the output of the River model
Coming soon!
A complex model: the Vehicle Production Energy model
This more complex model shows how to:
- Use more advanced data quality checks: the master data validation
- Use the Breakdown and All Combinations components.