In this section, we will be preparing the data mining models and validating them. This section will be a continuation of the last section where we finished creating the data source views for our mining structure.
Right-click on Mining Structures and then click on New. We will be presented with the following screen:
We now select the Microsoft Decision Trees algorithm, as shown here:
Then, we click on Next twice and reach the following screen:
Now, we select the case table as follows:
The case table is the one that has all the cases (essentially the set of values for different attributes) required to be provided to the model for making predictions. We will also use nested tables in the upcoming models and explain the nested tables as we encounter them.
We now select the model as the predictable column, as shown here:
We will also select the key column (in this case, CustomerKey
). We see that the Suggest option is now enabled. Let's click on...