File Data Set
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A dataset of type File, see the following figure, reads data from an XLS or CSV file. To define a **File Dataset** select the File type, then upload the file by browsing in your personal folders and set the proper options for parsing it.

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    File Dataset.

Once you have uploaded the file, you can check and define the metadata (measure or attribute) of each column.