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3.2 ARFF
BigML also accepts ARFF (Attribute-Relation File Format) files. This type of file was first introduced by WEKA. ARFF files basically come with a richer version of the header than a CSV file does which can define extra information about the type of the fields. An ARFF file separates its content into two sections: Header and Data. The header is used to define the name of the relation being modeled, the name of attributes, and their types. The data section contains the actual data using comma-separated values. (See Figure 3.1 .)
% Customer Churn Dataset
@RELATION Customers
@ATTRIBUTE Plan {'family', 'business', 'individual'}
@ATTRIBUTE Talk NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE Text NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE Purchases NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE Data NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE Age NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE Churn? {TRUE, FALSE}
@DATA
family, 148, 72, 0, 33.6, 50, TRUE
business, 85, 66, 0, 26.6, 31, FALSE
business, 83, 64, 0, 23.3, 32,TRUE
individual, 9, 66, 94, 28.1, 21, FALSE
family, 15, 0, 0, 35.3, 29, FALSE
individual, 66, 72, 175, 25.8, 51,TRUE
business, 0, 0, 0, 30, 32, TRUE
family, 18, 84, 230, 45.8, 31,TRUE
individual, 71, 110, 240, 45.4, 54, TRUE
family, 59, 64, 0, 27.4, 40, FALSE