What's New in Oracle Data Miner?

Oracle Data Miner 11.1 extends the Oracle Data Miner graphical user interface (GUI) to Oracle Data Mining 11.1.

Oracle Data Miner Release 11.1 targets the data analyst. The user interface is designed to increase the analyst's success rate in properly utilizing Oracle Data Mining algorithms in several ways:

Oracle Data Miner supports many of the new Oracle Data Mining 11.1 features, including Generalized Linear Models (GLM) for classification and regression.

New Feature Highlights

This section briefly describes new features of Oracle Data Miner 11.1:

New Algorithms

Oracle Data Miner supports the following

Deprecated Algorithm

Adaptive Bayes Network (ABN) classification algorithm is deprecated in Oracle Data Mining 11g. Oracle Data Miner does not support building ABN models. If you need to generate rules for a model, use the Decision Tree algorithm.

You can view ABN models that were built using the APIs.

New Model and Results Viewers

Oracle Data Miner includes model viewers for Generalized Linear models, both regression and classification.

Model Transparency

Models are built using transformed data; therefore, model build and apply results are expressed in terms of the transformed data, not the original data. For example, you might get rules expressed in terms of bin numbers instead of the original data. It is easiest to use rules and other results that are expressed in terms of the original data. If you use build and apply activities, displayed results are expressed "transparently", that is, in terms of the original data.

PL/SQL Code Generator

You can generate PL/SQL code for a mining activity. The generated code can be saved in a file from Oracle Data Miner. The Oracle Data Miner Code Generation Extension to Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle SQL Developer generates the code and allows you to incorporate it into programs. For details, see Oracle Data Miner PL/SQL Code Generator. The detailed information includes an example of how to generate and execute PL/SQL code for an apply activity.

Earlier versions of Oracle Data Miner generated Java code. The PL/SQL packages generated by Oracle Data Miner are callable from Java.