From Online Analytical Processing to Online Analytical Mining (OLAM)
Why online analytical mining?
- High quality of data in data warehouses
- DW contains integrated, consistent, cleaned data
- Available information processing structure surrounding data warehouses
- ODBC, OLEDB, Web accessing, service facilities, reporting and OLAP tools
- OLAP-based exploratory data analysis
- mining with drilling, dicing, pivoting, etc.
- On-line selection of data mining functions
- integration and swapping of multiple mining functions, algorithms, and tasks.