Why On-Line Analytical Mining?
OLAP-based, interactive, exploratory analysis.
- Effective data mining needs exploratory data analysis.
- User traverses database, selects relevant data, presents constraints and expected mining results, and analyzes data at different granularities.
- Mining needs drilling, dicing, slicing, pivoting, filtering, regrouping, visualizing, etc.
On-line selection of data mining functions.
- Flexible selection of desired mining functions
- Dynamic change of data mining tasks.