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Normalization is the process of scaling continuous values down to a specific range, often between zero and one. Normalization transforms eac...

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...

In this 5th blog post in my series on using the capabilities of Oracle Text, Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining to process documents...

This is the second blog post of a series on using Oracle Text, Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining. Check out the first blog post of...

A project that I've been working on for a while now involves the use of Oracle Text, Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining. Oracle ...

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

With the release of SQL Developer 4.1 we also get a number of new features with Oracle Data Miner (ODMr). These include: Data Source n...

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...

If you are downloading the EA1 of SQL Developer that includes Oracle Data Miner (ODMr), and you intend to use Oracle Data Miner then you wil...

When Oracle Data Miner (ODMr) 4.0 (which is part of SQL Developer) came out back in late 2013 there was a number of new features added to th...

With Oracle Open World just a few days away now, I was going through the list of presentations that are focused on using the Oracle Advanced...

The title of this blog post makes it sound more dramatic than it actually is. The reason for this blog post is down to me receiving a rece...

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...

In this blog post I will look at the PREDICT procedure that is part of the DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALTYICS package. This package allows you to per...

This is a the fourth part of a five (5) part blog post on building and using Clustering in Oracle Data Miner. The following outlines the con...

This is a the third part of a five (5) part blog post on building and using Clustering in Oracle Data Miner. The following outlines the cont...