Preface

This manual discusses the basic concepts underlying Oracle Data Mining (ODM). Details of programming with the Java and PL/SQL interfaces are presented in the Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for anyone planning to write data mining programs using the Oracle Data Mining interfaces. Familiarity with Java, PL/SQL, databases, and data mining is assumed.

Structure

This manual is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction to Oracle Data Mining"
• Chapter 2, "Data for Oracle Data Mining"
• Chapter 3, "Predictive Data Mining Models"
• Chapter 4, "Descriptive Data Mining Models"
• Chapter 5, "Data Mining Using the Java Interface"
• Chapter 6, "Objects and Functionality in the Java Interface"
• Chapter 7, "Data Mining Using DBMS_DATA_MINING"
• Chapter 8, "Text Mining Using Oracle Data Mining"
• Chapter 9, "Oracle Data Mining Scoring Engine"
• Chapter 10, "Sequence Similarity Search and Alignment (BLAST)"
• Appendix A, "ODM Interface Comparison"
• Glossary

Sample applications and detailed uses cases are provided in the Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide.

Where to Find More Information

The documentation set for Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle10i Database Documentation Library. The ODM documentation set consists of the following documents, available online:

• Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)
• Oracle Data Mining Concepts, 10g Release 1 (10.1) (this document)
• Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)

Last-minute information about ODM is provided in the platform-specific release notes or README files.

For detailed information about the ODM Java interface, see the ODM Javadoc documentation in the directory $ORACLE_HOME/dm/doc/jdoc (UNIX) or %ORACLE_HOME%\dm\doc\jdoc (Windows) on any system where ODM is installed.

For detailed information about the PL/SQL interface, see the Supplied PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.

For information about the data mining process in general, independent of both industry and tool, a good source is the CRISP-DM project (Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) (http://www.crisp-dm.org/).

Related Manuals

For more information about the database underlying Oracle Data Mining, see:

• Oracle Administrator's Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)
• Oracle Database 10g Installation Guide for your platform.

For information about developing applications to interact with the Oracle Database, see

• Oracle Application Developer's Guide -- Fundamentals, 10g Release 1 (10.1)

For information about upgrading from Oracle Data Mining release 9.0.1 or release 9.2.0, see

• Oracle Database Upgrade Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)
• Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)

For information about installing Oracle Data Mining, see

• Oracle Installation Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)
• Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)

Conventions

In this manual, Windows refers to the Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP operating systems.

The SQL interface to Oracle9i is referred to as SQL. This interface is the Oracle9i implementation of the SQL standard ANSI X3.135-1992, ISO 9075:1992, commonly referred to as the ANSI/ISO SQL standard or SQL92.

In examples, an implied carriage return occurs at the end of each line, unless otherwise noted. You must press the Return key at the end of a line of input.

The following conventions are also followed in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
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