What Are They Thinking? With
Oracle Application Express and
Oracle Data Miner
Brendan Tierney
Roel Hartman
Agenda
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Who are we
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The Scenario
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Graphs & Charts in APEX -‐ Live Demo
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Oracle Data Miner & DBA tasks
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Including Oracle Data Mining in APEX
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Currently:
▪ Lecturer▪ DBA
▪ Data Mining Consultant
▪ BI & Data Architect
▪ Trainer
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Working with Oracle products since 1992/1993
▪ Oracle version 5 up to 11g▪ Oracle Reports (RPT), ReportWriter I, RPT, …
▪ Forms 2.3…
▪ Oracle Data Miner since 2005
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Data Warehousing since 1997
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Data Mining since 1998
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Analytics since 1993
Brendan Tierney
Available in
eBook
The Scenario
But ?
Is there an Alternative?
The Scenario
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We have a number of products
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We got the opinions from Amazon (star rating)
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Can we use Data Mining to predict opinions
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Can we build interactive dashboards in the DB
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Data Mining & Interactive Dashboards with APEX
APEX -‐ POOR MAN’S BI TOOL
DEMO
ORACLE ADVANCED ANALYTICS
Technique Algorithms Applicability
Classification Logistic Regression (GLM)
Decision Trees
Naïve Bayes
Support Vector Machine
Classical Statistical Technique
Popular / Rules / Transparency
Embedded
Wide / Narrow Data / Text Regression
Multiple Regression
Support Vector Machine
Classical Statistical Technique
Wide / Narrow Data / Text
Anomaly Detection
One Class SVM Lack Examples
Attribute Importance
Minimum Descriptive Length Attribute Reduction
Identify Useful Data
Reduce Data Noise Association Rules
Apriori Market Basket Analysis
Link Analysis Clustering Enhanced K-‐Means
O-‐Cluster
Expectation Maximization
Product Grouping
Text Mining
Gene and Protein Analysis Feature Extraction Non-‐Negative Matrix Factorization
Principal Components Analysis
Singular Vector Decomposition
Text Analysis