Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog

In my previous blog post I introduced the new Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA) algorithm and gave an example of how you can build an ESA mod...

When working with SQL or PL/SQL we all know there are some words we cannot use in our code or to label various parts of it. These languages ...

Over the past couple of weeks I've been preparing my slides and presentations for Oracle Open World (2015). One thing that occurred to...

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 gave some PL/SQL that performed the tokenising of a string. Check out this blog post here. Thanks also to the p...

Over the past while I've been working a lot with text strings. Some of these have been short in length like tweets from Twitter, or long...

As your data volumes increase, particularly as you evolve into the big data world, you will be start to see that your Oracle Data Mining sco...

Oracle Data Mining uses Nested data types/tables to store some of its data. Oracle Data Mining creates a number of tables/objects that conta...

With the release of Oracle 12c we get new functions/procedures and some updated ones for Oracle Data Miner that is part of the Advanced Anal...

This is the Part 3 blog post on getting started with Statistics for Oracle Data Science projects. The first blog post in the series loo...

There are 2 PL/SQL packages for performing data mining/predictive analytics in Oracle. The main PL/SQL package is DBMS_DATA_MINING. This pac...

With all analytics or data science projects one of the first steps typically involves the extraction of data from various sources, merging t...