Start a Session in Postman

If you haven't already installed the Nexosis API Collection, read our support documentation, How to Install Postman and the Nexosis API Collection

1. From the Nexosis API Collections, open the Sessions folder and click POST /sessions/model.

2. Click Body and paste the following code. - Note: dataSourceName must match whatever you named your dataset at the beginning. 

{
  "dataSourceName": "titanic",
  "targetColumn": "Survived",
  "predictionDomain": "classification"
 }

You should have a POST request that looks like this: 

3. Click the blue Send button to the Right of the URL in Postman.

When you scroll to the bottom of the body, you will see your unique session ID and the response status should say requested or started.

Important: Copy your SessionID out of the response body as you will need this in the subsequent steps.