# Data exploration and analysis
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**Note**  
You can only use SageMaker Canvas visualizations and analytics for models built on tabular datasets. Multi-category text prediction models are also excluded.

In Amazon SageMaker Canvas, you can explore the variables in your dataset using visualizations and analytics and create in-application visualizations and analytics. You can use these explorations to uncover relationships between your variables before building your model.

For more information about visualization techniques in Canvas, see [Explore your data using visualization techniques](canvas-explore-data-visualization.md).

For more information about analytics in Canvas, see [Explore your data using analytics](canvas-explore-data-analytics.md).