When you use Model Studio to create a project in SAS^® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, the following error might be displayed:

The data adviser failed to run on the selected data source.

There are multiple, possible causes, including but not limited to the following:

• The data source is created from a table that has a file name that contains more than 32 characters.
• The length of a column name in the table exceeds 32 characters.
• The column or data set name contains special characters, such as the following: / \ * ? " < > | : - . & ".

To eliminate those possible causes, make sure that data set names and variable names have a maximum length of 32 characters. Also, remove special characters from column and data set names.

For additional information, see the "Importing Data" section (under "Working with Data") in the Model Studio 8.5 / SAS^® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning 8.5: User’s Guide documentation.