5.2 Updating Fields

You can change field names, labels or tags, and descriptions by clicking the edit icon next to the field name. You can also set a field as Non-preferred fields, which will not be taken into account to generate your models. From the same editing panel, you can set a field as the Objective Field for models, ensembles, and logistic regressions. (See Figure 5.5 .) By default, BigML takes the last valid field (numeric or categorical fields) as the objective field. Please read the section Objective Field of the Classification and Regression with the BigML Dashboard [ 4 ] to learn more about the objective field.

Note: the non-preferred fields and the objective field are inherited when you clone a dataset from the BigML Gallery. Also when you create new datasets from existing ones by splitting into subsets, sampling, filtering, or adding new fields.