Oracle Data Miner User Interface

Oracle Data Miner consists of two main panes, the Navigator pane (on the left side of the window), and the Viewer pane (on the right side of the window). If there are any active tasks, the Active Tasks pane is displayed on lower left side of the window.

The Navigator list maintains a tree hierarchy of objects owned by the user that you connected as. When an object is selected in the Navigator pane, its contents are displayed in the Viewer pane. Object in the Navigator pane are organized by Data Mining Server; a Data Mining Server is divided into Models, Results, Tasks, Mining Activities, and Data Sources.

The Active Tasks pane displays all active tasks and the five most recently completed tasks. To view the details of an active task, double-click it in the list. For more information about the Active Tasks pane, see Active Tasks. Use the View menu to turn the display of this pane on and off.

Using The Interface

Oracle Data Miner first asks you for connection information to a Data Mining Server. Once you successfully connect to a server, you can

Viewer Pane

The information displayed in the Viewer pane depends on the object selected. Information displayed in the Viewer pane, except for the Stop and Delete buttons, is read-only.

Data Sources Display

A table or view is displayed in a tabbed pane with two the following two tabs:

Oracle Data Miner Menus

The Oracle Data Miner has the following menus in the Menu Bar:

File Menu

The File menu contains the selections Delete and Exit.

View Menu

The View menu contains the selections Active Tasks, Go Forward, Go Back, and Refresh. Active Tasks turns the display of the Active Tasks pane on and off; the default is to display such tasks.

Data Menu

The Data menu contains the selections Copy Table, Create Table From View, Create View (a visual query builder), Generate SQL, Import From File, Show Lineage, Show Summary Single-Record, Show Summary Multi-Record, the Transform submenu, Predict, and Explain.

Transform Sub Menu

The Transform submenu of the Data menu contains the following transformations: Aggregate, Compute Field, Discretize (bin), Filter Single-Record case table, Missing Value, Normalize, Numeric, Outlier Treatment, Recode, Sample, Stratified Sample Split, Variation Filter, and Text.

Invoking Transforms

Many of the selections in the Data menu can be invoked from the context menu that appears when you select a table or view and right click. In this case, the selected table or view is automatically set as the input of the transformation.

Activity Menu

The Activity menu organizes mining activities as follows: Build, Apply, Test

Tools Menu

The Tools menu contains the following selections: Synchronize Repository, SQL Worksheet and Preferences.

Use Synchronize Repository when you are suing a model created without using Oracle Data Miner or when you have reason to believe that what you are doing in the client is not synchronized with Oracle Data Miner's Repository.

SQL Worksheet provides a way to execute SQL expressions that reference table or views in the user's connected schema. For more information, see SQL Worksheet.

Preferences allows users to make certain changes in Oracle Data Miner behavior (sample size, how long tasks are displayed in the active tasks list, etc.). See Oracle Data Miner Preferences for details.

Help Menu

The Help menu contains the selections Help Contents and About.

In the Help Contents display, you can expand the selections for general information or click the Search tab to perform full-text searches in the entire help system. You can also get help for the object that you are viewing by pressing F1 or clicking Help, if such a button is present.

About provides version information for Oracle data Miner.