diff --git a/auto_ml/utils.py b/auto_ml/utils.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/auto_ml/utils.py
+++ b/auto_ml/utils.py
@@ -15,13 +15,19 @@ import scipy
 import xgboost as xgb
 
 
-def split_output(X, output_column_name):
+def split_output(X, output_column_name, verbose=False):
     y = []
     for row in X:
         y.append(
             row.pop(output_column_name)
         )
 
+    if verbose:
+        print('Just to make sure that your y-values make sense, here are the first 100 sorted values:')
+        print(sorted(y)[:100])
+        print('And here are the final 100 sorted values:')
+        print(sorted(y)[-100:])
+
     return X, y
adds some logging for our output values just so the user can catch any outliers