A.1 About the Data Mining Sample Programs

You can learn a great deal about the Oracle Data Mining application programming interface (API) from the data mining sample programs. The programs illustrate typical approaches to data preparation, algorithm selection, algorithm tuning, testing, and scoring.

The programs are easy to use. They include extensive inline comments to help you understand the code. They delete all temporary objects on exit; you can run the programs repeatedly without setup or cleanup.

The data mining sample programs are installed with Oracle Database Examples in the demo directory under Oracle Home. The demo directory contains sample programs that illustrate many features of Oracle Database. You can locate the data mining files by doing a directory listing of dm*.sql. The following example shows this directory listing on a Linux system.

Note that the directory listing in the following example includes one file, dmhpdemo.sql, that is not a data mining program.

Example A-1 Directory Listing of the Data Mining Sample Programs

> cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo
> ls dm*.sql
dmaidemo.sql      dmkmdemo.sql    dmsvddemo.sql              
dmardemo.sql      dmnbdemo.sql    dmsvodem.sql    
dmdtdemo.sql      dmnmdemo.sql    dmsvrdem.sql               
dmdtxvlddemo.sql  dmocdemo.sql    dmtxtnmf.sql                      
dmemdemo.sql      dmsh.sql        dmtxtsvm.sql
dmglcdem.sql      dmshgrants.sql                          
dmglrdem.sql      dmstardemo.sql                          
dmhpdemo.sql      dmsvcdem.sql

The data mining sample programs create a set of mining models in the user's schema. After executing the programs, you can list the models with a query like the one in the following example.

Example A-2 Models Created by the Sample Programs

SELECT mining_function, algorithm, model_name FROM user_mining_models
    ORDER BY mining_function;
 
MINING_FUNCTION                ALGORITHM                      MODEL_NAME
------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------
ASSOCIATION_RULES              APRIORI_ASSOCIATION_RULES      AR_SH_SAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION                 GENERALIZED_LINEAR_MODEL       GLMC_SH_CLAS_SAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION                 SUPPORT_VECTOR_MACHINES        T_SVM_CLAS_SAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION                 SUPPORT_VECTOR_MACHINES        SVMC_SH_CLAS_SAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION                 SUPPORT_VECTOR_MACHINES        SVMO_SH_CLAS_SAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION                 NAIVE_BAYES                    NB_SH_CLAS_SAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION                 DECISION_TREE                  DT_SH_CLAS_SAMPLE
CLUSTERING                     EXPECTATION_MAXIMIZATION       EM_SH_CLUS_SAMPLE
CLUSTERING                     O_CLUSTER                      OC_SH_CLUS_SAMPLE
CLUSTERING                     KMEANS                         KM_SH_CLUS_SAMPLE
CLUSTERING                     KMEANS                         DM_STAR_CLUSTER
FEATURE_EXTRACTION             SINGULAR_VALUE_DECOMP          SVD_SH_SAMPLE
FEATURE_EXTRACTION             NONNEGATIVE_MATRIX_FACTOR      NMF_SH_SAMPLE
FEATURE_EXTRACTION             NONNEGATIVE_MATRIX_FACTOR      T_NMF_SAMPLE
REGRESSION                     SUPPORT_VECTOR_MACHINES        SVMR_SH_REGR_SAMPLE
REGRESSION                     GENERALIZED_LINEAR_MODEL       GLMR_SH_REGR_SAMPLE