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By the end of this chapter page you will be able to:

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Before starting this exercise, you will need to download a pack of files. These are available here: download train.zip. Save these Extract the files to a convenient location on your local drive, and unzip. Throughout the course, these will be referred to as the input files.

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  1. Hover over your new file collector, and press Image Removedclick
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  2. In the file explorer, go to: …\inputData\AddressCheck\custAddrFiles\input.
  3. Select the file custAddr_20090322_1.txt and press click Open.
  4. In the Upload Managed File form, press Upload.You will see a stream appear on your model – window, click the 
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  5. PhixFlow adds a new stream to your model. PhixFlow has automatically configured the file collector and the stream to load the file into PhixFlow.

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In this case, once you have loaded the file, you will "pause" the file data so that you do not need to reload the file from your computer every time you run the model.
We will cover pausing components in PhixFlow in more detail in the Modelling Concepts course.
To pause the data loaded from the file:

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  1. In your model, hover your mouse pointer over the stream

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  1.  for CustomerAddresses.
  2. In the pop-up toolbar, click 
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Run analysis on the stream

You will now run analysis on your new stream. Analysis is the process that does all PhixFlow's data processing.
To run analysis:

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  1. In your model, hover your mouse pointer over the stream icon Image Added.
  2. In the pop-up toolbar, select the
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  1. PhixFlow runs the model, reading in data from the file of customer addresses via the file collector.
  2. You will get a confirmation message when this has completed. We will look at messages in the console later.

View stream data

To view the data you just loaded:

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  1. In your model, hover your mouse pointer over the stream

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  2. In the pop-up toolbar, click 
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  3. In the drop-down list, select  
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