Preparing data

After you create a project, or join one, the next step is to add data to the project and prepare the data for analysis.

Required permissions: You must have the Admin or Editor role in a project to add or prepare data.

You can add data assets from your local system or from connections to data sources. See Adding data to a project.

You can add these types of data assets to a project:

Data assets from files from your local system, including structured data, unstructured data, and images.
Connection assets that contain information for connecting to data sources. You can add connections to IBM or third-party data sources. See Connectors.
Connected data assets that specify a table, view, or file that is accessed through a connection to a data source.
Connected folder assets that specify a path in IBM Cloud Object Storage.

To get started quickly, take a tutorial. See Quick start tutorials.

To refine data by cleansing and shaping it, you can:

Select the Prepare data tile on your watsonx home page.
Add the data to the project, then open the data asset and click Prepare data.

To manage feature groups for a data asset, open the data asset and go to its Feature group page.

To create synthetic data, you can:

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