1.10 Descriptive Information

Each model has an associated name, description, category, and tags. A brief description follows for each concept. In Figure 1.97 , you can see the possibilities that the More info menu option gives to edit them.

1.10.1 Model Name

Each model has an associated name that is displayed on the list view and also on the top bar of a model view. Model names are indexed to be used in searches. When you create a model, by default, it gets the name of the dataset used to create it. The name of a model cannot be longer than 256 characters. There is no restriction on the characters that can be used in a model name. More than one model can have the same name even within the same project, since they are automatically assigned unique internal identifiers.

1.10.2 Description

Each model also takes the description from the dataset used to create it. Having a description can be 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 1.98 .)

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

1.10.3 Category

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

A model category must be one of the 24 categories listed on table Table 1.3 .

1.10.4 Tags

A model can also have a number of tags associated with it that can help to retrieve it via BigML API or to provide models with some extra information. Models inherit the tags from the dataset used to create them.

Each tag is limited to a maximum of 128 characters. Each model can have up to 32 different tags.

1.10.5 Counters

For each model, BigML also stores a number of counters to track the number of other resources that have been created using the model. In the model 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 model as shown in Figure 1.99 .