Create Recipes

Data science recipes describe all of the steps taken in a project from data ingestion to transformation to analysis, and are recorded as step-by-step instructions that can be used to reproduce the state of a session. The recipe can then be edited, replayed, and shared as needed.

Recipes are similar to snapshots with a couple of key differences:

	Recipes	Snapshots
Definition	A list of steps that can be loaded into different sessions.	A collection of datasets from a session that can be loaded into different sessions.
Use Case	Automate processes, share work with others, or save session state for later.	Work with a cleaned version of data in an existing or new session.

In this chapter:

• Save a Recipe
• Save a Trimmed Recipe
• Save a Copy of a Recipe

Save a Recipe

To save your current session as a recipe, click Save in the sidebar. The Save form opens:

1. Click Recipe.
2. Enter a descriptive name for your new recipe. By default, the name of your session is used.
3. Click Submit.

This saves your session as a recipe object, which you can access from the Recipes section on the homepage. Interim modifications to notes are not included in a saved recipe. All modifications to a note are captured in one Modify line.

To improve recipe replays, some skills are not included in saved recipes:

• Collaborate on this recipe with <user>
• Connect to the view <view name>
• Create a new API <api name>
• Export the current recipe to <file name>
  • the saved recipe <recipe name> to <file name>
• Replay the recipe <recipe name>
• Save the current chart as <name>
  • the current session as
  • the defined expressions to <file>
• Share the connection <connection name>
  • the file <file name>
  • the recipe <recipe name>

Save a Trimmed Recipe

If you've spent a lot of time exploring your data, calculating different values, and plotting charts, you might want to save a recipe that includes only the tables and charts you actually need.

note

To save a trimmed recipe, you must be in Notebook mode.

To save a trimmed recipe:

1. Select each of the tables, charts, and notes you want to keep using the checkbox in the header.
2. Click the Save button in the toolbar.
3. Give your recipe a name.
4. Click Submit.

The resulting recipe contains only the steps necessary to create the selected charts, tables, and notes.

Save a Copy of a Recipe

1. From the homepage, click the Recipe page.
2. Select the recipe to copy.
3. Click the More button.
4. Click the Save As button, then enter a new name for the copy.