Chapter 13. Oracle Data Miner 4.1

The data mining process just means extracting relevant information from the tons of available data in the database. The relevance of data is with respect to the problem statement of any particular project. Data miner in SQL Developer 4.1 has enhanced features, and though it is significant to touch upon the new features that can be useful for emerging technologies and the users, in this chapter we will be discussing all the new features provided with the Data Miner tool and also the general enhancements in and around the tool. One of the most relevant and significant additions to the data mining capability is the growing popularity of JSON data and its use in Big Data configuration. Data Miner now provides an easy-to-use JSON Query node. In this chapter, we will start off with data source node preparation.