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Import Bean Properties and Use

Properties

The Import Bean panel provides these options:

Definition File Name
Enter the name of a definition file. Use the Browse button to select a definition file. This file can be used to generate a Filter bean The data itself must be a file by the same name with a .dat extension.
Delimiters
Select one of the following delimiters:
Spaces use spaces between fields.
Commas use commas between fields.
Record cache
Enter the number of records to be read from the file and stored in memory. To read the entire file and store in memory, enter a 0 value.
Randomize data
Check this box if the file data should be presented in a random sequence. For some beans such as BackPropagation, this can be beneficial; other beans such as Temporal Difference Learning the record sequence is critical.

Use

The Import Bean panel is used to specify and operate on a file from which data is to be read. It is often used before a filter bean to translate data for neural network input.

Steps in using the panel include:

  1. Enter the name of the import file from which to read data.
  2. Select Spaces or Commas as present in the data file.
  3. Check Randomize data if beneficial to the receiving bean.
  4. Press the Open file button.
  5. Press the Generate Filter button to create a translate file with the same name as the definition file.