2.9 Descriptive Information

Each ensemble has an associated name, description, category, and tags. In Figure 2.98 , you can see the options that the More info panel gives to edit them.

2.9.1 Name

Each ensemble has an associated name that is displayed on the list view and also on the top bar of an ensemble view. Ensemble names are indexed to be used in searches. When you create an ensemble, by default, it gets the name of the file that you used to create it You can edit it using the More info menu option on the right corner of the ensemble view (see Figure 2.98 ).

The name of an ensemble cannot be longer than 256 characters. There is no restriction on the characters that can be used in an ensemble name. More than one ensemble can have the same name even within the same project, since they are automatically assigned unique internal identifiers.

2.9.2 Description

Each ensemble also has a description, taken from the dataset used to create them, that it is very useful for documenting your Machine Learning projects. Descriptions can be written using plain text and also markdown. BigML provides a simple markdown editor that accepts a subset of markdown syntax. (See Figure 2.99 .)

Descriptions cannot be longer than 8192 characters and can use almost any character.

2.9.3 Category

Each ensemble has an associated category inherited from the dataset used to create it. Categories are useful to classify ensembles according to the domain which your data comes from. This is useful when you use BigML to solve problems across industries or multiple customers.

An ensemble category must be one of the categories listed on table subsection 2.9.3 .

2.9.4 Tags

An ensemble can also have a number of tags associated with it that can help to retrieve it via BigML’s API or to provide ensembles with some extra information. Each tag is limited to a maximum of 128 characters. Each ensemble can have up to 32 different tags.

2.9.5 Counters

For each ensemble, BigML also stores a number of counters to track the number of other resources that have been created using it as a starting point. In the ensemble view, you can see a menu option that displays these counters. It also allows you to quickly jump to all the resources of one type that have been created with this ensemble as shown in Figure 2.100 .