Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog

Ethics is one of those topics that everyone has a slightly different definition or view of what it means. The Oxford english dictionary defi...

Over the past few weeks or months (maybe even years) I've had several conversations with various people about why Data Science (or whate...

This is the third and final blog post on analysing the number of new R packages that have been submitted over time. Check out the previous...

This is the second blog post on charting the number of new R Packages over time. Check out the first blog post that looked at getting th...

This is the first of a three part blog post on charting and analysing the number of R package submissions. (I will update this blog post ...

PMML (Predictive Model Markup Langauge) is an XML formatted output that defines the core elements and settings for your Predictive Models. T...

When you are working with and developing Decision Trees by far the easiest way to visualise these is by using the Oracle Data Miner (ODMr) t...

In my previous blog post I showed you how you can have a look at the transformations that the Automatic Data Preparation (ADP) feature of Or...

A very powerful feature of Oracle Data Mining and one that I think does not get enough notice is called Automatic Data Preparation. Data P...

Everyone is doing advanced analytics. Right? Hmm Everyone is talking about advanced analytics? Yes that is true. Everyone is an expert ...

Check out the video of US President talking about Data Science and the first Chief Data Scientist of the USA talks about his mission.

When you are working on building classification models you will need some ways of measuring the effectiveness of each model that you will bu...

Some of you may be aware that I have been writing a on Oracle Data Miner. Actually the book covers the Oracle Data Miner GUI that is part o...

At a recent Oracle User Group conference, I was part of a round table discussion on Apps and BI. Unfortunately most of the questions were fo...

If you are interested in using ORE or just to get an idea of what does ORE give you that does not already exist in one of the other R packag...

The Gartner 2014 Advanced Analytics Quadrant is out now. Well it is if you can find it. Some of the companies have put it up on their webs...

Oracle R Enterprise is the version of R that Oracle has that runs in the database instead of on your laptop or desktop. Oracle already has...

In Oracle Data Miner you can use the Explore Node to gather an initial set of statistics for your dataset. As part of this you will also get...

Oracle Data Miner is a very powerful tool that provides advanced machine learning algorithms that are embedded in the Oracle database. By us...