Oracle Data Miner consists of two main panes, the Navigator pane (on the left side of the window), and the Viewer pane (on the right side of the window). If there are any active tasks, the tasks pane is displayed on lower left side of the window.
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Oracle Data Miner first asks you for connection information to a Data Mining Server. Once you successfully connect to a server, you can
Note that you can view mining objects that were created using Oracle Data Miner. You can also view objects created using Oracle Data Mining 11g programmatic interfaces, once the objects have been synchronized.
The Navigator maintains a tree hierarchy of objects owned by the user that you connected as. When an object is selected in the Navigator pane, its contents are displayed in the Viewer pane. Object in the Navigator pane are organized by Data Mining Server; a Data Mining Server is divided into Mining Activities, Data Sources, Published Objects, Results, and Tasks. The subdivisions are further divided into logical groupings; for example, Data Sources are divided into schemas.
The tasks pane has two tabs, Activity Tasks and Server Tasks. When an activity is executing, the name of the activity and its status (percent complete) are displayed in the Activity Tasks list. Some steps of an activity result in server tasks. When a server task is running, its status is displayed in the Server Tasks list. To view the details of an active server task, double-click it in the list. For more information about the tasks pane, see Active Tasks. Use the View menu to turn the display of this pane on and off.
The information displayed in the Viewer pane depends on the object selected. Information displayed in the Viewer pane, except for the Stop and Delete buttons, is read-only.
The folders display mining activities, data sources, Discover objects, models, results, and tasks.
Mining Activities are divided according to type, such as Anomaly Detection.
To see a list of the mining activities in a folder, click the folder name. For example, if you click Anomaly Detection, you get a list of the anomaly detection mining activities. For each activity, the following is listed:
To view an individual activity, expand the folder and click on the activity that you wish to view. You can view options and results; you can also change options after you reset the corresponding step.
A table or view is displayed in a tabbed pane with the following tabs:
The Oracle Data Miner has the following menus in the Menu Bar:
The File menu contains the selections Delete and Exit.
The View menu contains the selections Active Tasks, Go Forward, Go Back, and Refresh. Active Tasks turns the display of the Active Tasks pane on and off; the default is to display such tasks.
The Data menu contains the selections Copy Table, Create Table From View, Create View (a visual query builder), Generate SQL, Import From File, Show Lineage, Show Summary Single-Record, Show Summary Multi-Record, the Transform submenu, Predict, and Explain.
The Transform submenu of the Data menu contains the following transformations: Aggregate, Compute Field, Discretize (bin), Filter Single-Record case table, Missing Values, Normalize, Numeric, Outlier Treatment, Recode, Sample, Stratified Sample, Split, Stratified Split, Variation Filter, and Text.
Many of the selections in the Data menu can be invoked from the context menu that appears when you select a table or view and right click. In this case, the selected table or view is automatically set as the input of the transformation.
Predict and Explain automate the later stages of data mining process from certain types of data preprocessing through model building to scoring new data. For more information, see Predictive Analytics.
The Activity menu organizes mining activities as follows: Build, Apply, Test.
The Tools menu contains the following selections:
The Help menu contains the selections Help Contents and About.
In the Help Contents display, you can expand the selections for general information or click the Search tab to perform full-text searches in the entire help system. Not all topics are listed in Help Contents. You can also help for the object that you are viewing by pressing F1 or clicking Help, if such a button is present. Some windows that are generated by Oracle Data Miner do not have a button for help; instead they have a Help menu. In such case, use the Help menu to display help.
About provides version information for Oracle Data Miner.
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