Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog

A very common analytics technique for financial and other data is to calculate the moving average. This can allow you to see a different typ...

It is widely recognised that SQL is one of the core languages that every data scientist needs to know. Not just know but know really well. I...

I recently had an article published on Oracle Developer Community website about Understanding, Building and Using Neural Network Machine Lea...

Here are some results from a little testing I recent did on extracting data from an Oracle database and what effect the arraysize makes and ...

Next week I'll be giving several presentation on machine learning at Oracle Open World and Oracle Code One. In one of these presentation...

Here are the slides from my presentation at OUG Ireland 2017. All about running R using SQL. Embedded R Execution using SQL from Bren...

Here are the presentations I gave at OUG Norway last week. These are also available on SlideShare SQL: The one language to rule all yo...

This blog post looks at how to format the output or the returned returns from an Oracle R Enterprise (ORE), user defined R function, that is...

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...

A new Oracle Data Mining algorithm in the Oracle 12.2c Database is called Explicit Semantic Analysis. [ The following examples are built u...

In a previous blog post I talked about how you can rename and comment your Oracle Data Mining models. This is to allow you to easily to see ...

As your company evolves with their data mining projects, the number of models produced and in use in production will increase dramatically. ...

When working with the Clustering algorithms, and particularly k-Means, in the Oracle Data Miner tool there is no way of seeing how compact o...

If you are a user of the Oracle Data Miner tool (the workflow data mining tool that is part of SQL Developer), then you will have noticed th...

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 ...

Did you read the title of this blog post! Read it again. Yes, Yes, I know what you are saying, "SQL cannot produce graphics or charts...

When building predictive models the data scientist can spend a large amount of time examining the models produced and how they work and perf...

I've never been to KScope. Yes never. I've always wanted to. Each year you hear of all of these stories about how much people real...

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

Over past year we have been (hopefully) hearing about Oracle Big Data SQL. This is a new(-ish) option from Oracle that allows us to run ou...