Newbie question about predictive Neural Network tool

iperich

Hi, I'm starting with Alteryx, I have an interesting dataset to try to correlate certain behavior with time variables, such as "month of the year", "day of the month", "day of the week" and "hour of the day". I have used a Neural Network block, and it seems it works, I'm attaching a "Browse" block to the "R" connector (Report) and I see a beautiful report showing "effect plots" for each variable and other interesting data (I say "beautiful" because of the "so relevant" information it gives about the problem  

My question is this: I don't know what to do with the "O" connector of the Neural Network block, I've read the Help Page on this subject, https://help.alteryx.com/9.5/Neural_Network.htm and it says the Output is "a table of the serialized model with its model name", I don't understand this, I'm seeing an Object with 500.000 or so bytes long. ¿What is that? ¿How can I "browse" it? The Browse block only says "View Data Table in Results window". I looked for examples but found none. 

Thanks in advice. 

chadanaber

The O output of the Neural network outputs the actual model that was created by the neural network tool, so that you can use that model against other datasets.  You can use the score tool to score/predict additional data. This is one nice way to look at how much overfitting exists with your model.  Just plug the O output from the neural net into one of the inputs of the score tool, and the additional data into the other input of the score tool.

As far as to whether the serialized format of the model is usable outside of Alteryx, that I do not know.  Hope this helps!