Systems and methods are provided that allow federated data from various source systems to be accessed and analyzed through a data analysis platform. The federated data may be stored in different formats. The data analysis platform can receive the federated data in whatever format it has been stored at its respective source system. A script can be used to generate temporary representations (or temporary objects) for the federated data by transforming the federated data. Moreover, the temporary representations or temporary objects can be further transformed into a data analysis platform-specific format. A user of data analysis platform may access and/or manipulate either the temporary representations or objects as well as the data analysis platform-specific objects. Temporary objects can be transformed automatically into corresponding platform-specific objects when necessary to provide an enhanced capability or operation on the objects.