Where to Find More Information

This topic describes where to find information about data mining:

Oracle Data Mining Documentation
Oracle Data Mining Tutorial
Oracle Text Documentation
Oracle Data Miner Documentation
Other Sources of Information

Much of the documentation listed here is in the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) Documentation Library available from Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2) Documentation.

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Oracle Data Mining Documentation

Oracle Data Miner is the user interface to Release 2 (10.2) of Oracle Data Mining for Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2).

For detailed information about Oracle Data Mining, see

Oracle Data Mining Concepts
Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide
Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide
Oracle Data Mining Java API Reference (Javadoc for the Java interface)
The DBMS_DATA_MINING, DBMS_DATA_MINING_TRANSFORM, and DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALYTICS chapters in Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference
The data mining function descriptions in the Oracle Database SQL Reference

Data mining documentation is on the Data Warehousing tab of the documentation library.

You should also read the release notes for the version of Oracle that is installed on your system.

Oracle Data Mining Tutorial

On the Oracle Data Miner Downloads page, you can download Oracle Data Miner 10.2.0.3 Tutorial; the tutorial is a WinZip archive consisting of the Oracle Data Mining Tutorial in PDF format and dump files required for tutorial exercises.

Oracle Text Documentation

Oracle Data Miner supports mining one column of text data, which is unstructured data. You can also mine a column of text data by joining the text as a transactional source. Mining text data uses the facilities and concepts of Oracle Text. For detailed information about Oracle Text, see the following manuals:

Oracle Text documentation in on the Unstructured tab of the documentation library.

Oracle Data Miner Documentation

The documentation consists of the following:

readme.html
Online help

These items are included in the Oracle Technology Network download for Oracle Data Miner. readme.html is automatically copied to the directory where Oracle Data Miner is installed.

Other Sources of Information

For the latest version of Oracle Data Miner and information and resources about Data Mining and related technologies, see Oracle Data Mining, the Oracle Data Mining home page.

The Oracle Data Mining Discussion Forum allows you to ask questions and make comments about Oracle Data Mining. To go to the Oracle Data Mining Discussion Forum, use the link in the previous sentence, or click Discussion Forum under the heading Learn More at the right-hand side of the Oracle Data Mining home page.