Explanation If you have structured data not yet registered as a dataset, create a TabularDataset and use it directly in your training script for your local or remote experiment. To load the TabularDataset to pandas DataFrame df = dataset.to_pandas_dataframe() Note: TabularDataset represents data in a tabular format created by parsing the provided file or list of files. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-train-with-datasets