MineSet Enterprise Edition Tutorial for Windows introduces MineSet in a Windows environment. MineSet is an integrated suite of data mining and visualization tools, and provides a swift survey of the concepts and processes of data mining. This tutorial describes a few basic tasks to help you use MineSet immediately. Once you are familiar with the interface, refer to the MineSet Enterprise Edition User's Guide for Windows for a full description of other MineSet features. The user's guide is delivered online as part of the MineSet product. See also http://mineset.sgi.com for more information.
Use this book with MineSet version 3.1 and later.
This tutorial is for end users. No experience in programming is required, nor is any previous knowledge of statistics (although it is helpful). However, a basic knowledge of Windows is assumed.
To work with this tutorial, MineSet should be installed on your system, or you should have access to such a system. The examples depend on it. Instructions for installing MineSet are available in the MineSet Enterprise Edition User's Guide for Windows and on the MineSet Web page http://mineset.sgi.com
For this tutorial you do not need access to a database. The data needed is included in the MineSet distribution.
Chapter 1, “Data Mining Fundamentals,” introduces the concept of data mining and explains how it can be used to solve problems. Common data mining tasks are aligned with the various MineSet tools; the details of each tool are covered in later chapters.
Chapter 2, “Data Mining Process,” describes the tasks involved in the process of data mining. A case study of data mining using MineSet is provided.
Chapter 3, “Churn Tutorial,” provides a detailed tutorial for the process of data mining using MineSet. It begins from the initial screen and steps screen by screen through the MineSet tools, using churn, a dataset provided with the MineSet distribution.
Chapter 4, “Further Explorations,” continues the exploration of MineSet with more complex variations of data mining.
Appendix A, “Navigating in the MineSet Visualizers,” explains the various ways to move around in and manipulate the visualizer windows.
This tutorial uses several font conventions:
| italics | Italics are used for commands, filenames, variables, and user interface button names. | |
| Courier | Courier is used for examples of system output and for the contents of files. | |
| Courier bold | Courier bold is used for commands and other text that you type literally. |