4.3 Including or Excluding Fields

The dataset configuration options allow you to include or exclude fields when creating a dataset. You can include or exclude them all, as seen in Figure 4.3 . Or deselect the box associated with the fields you do not want to use, as shown in Figure 4.4 . The fields you deselect will not be included in the dataset, therefore BigML will not consider them when later building your model.

Obviously, if you exclude all your fields, no dataset will be created. However, this option might be useful when your source has lots of fields but you only want to include a few of them. In this case, it would be faster to exclude them all and select the few fields you want to include one by one.

Once you have assigned a new name to your dataset, set the percentage of your source to use, and selected the fields you need, you are ready to click the Create dataset button shown in Figure 4.4 . This action will bring you to the dataset visualization, explained in the following Chapter 5 .