I can't understand the meaning of a prediction query

Dear friends,
I'm reading Wiley's Data mining with SQL Server 2005... There are MANY things I can't understand about MovieClick example (Chapter 3).
I hope someone is going to help me with this troubles...

WARNING (1): I'm a dummy both with sql server and data mining.
WARNING (2): My English is not good at all.

Just two questions for now:

1) When I create the model to predict the number of bedrooms for homeowners, the book says to check BEDROOMS as Predictable... question: is it also an INPUT for the model, or PREDICTABLE only?

2) I'd like to keep this model (number of bedrooms.......) and make a prediction query.

- Query builder
- select case table -> Homeowners
- Drag the Customer ID column from the Homeowners table and drop it on the grid
- Drag the BEDROOMS column from the mining model and drop it on the grid.
- On the last row: Source=PredictionFunction, Field=PredictProbability
- Drag the BEDROOMS column from the mining model and drop it into Criteria/Argument
- Add (i.e.) 'Two or Three' to the field Criteria/Argument

I execute the query and I obtain many rows in a table with the following colums: CustomerID, BEDROOMS and Expression: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
WHICH INFO DO I GET FROM THOSE NUMBERS? WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM THEM?

Thanx a lot in advance, please help me!

1: It won't actually matter if you make it INPUT as well. When you mark something as PREDICTABLE, it generally means that the algorithm will try to learn about the data in that column. When you mark it as INPUT, it generally means that the algorithm will consider this column as information about the predictable columns. For trees, for example, the algorithm will create a tree for each predictable column, and the trees can have splits on the input columns. If you have a column that is marked INPUT and PREDICTABLE, in general, it only matters if you have more than one PREDICTABLE, since the columns don't act as inputs for themselves, for example, the tree for # of bedrooms isn't going to have a split on # of bedrooms, but if you also make Home Ownership predictable, than # of bedrooms could be a condition in the tree for Home Ownership. (the one exception is for clustering, but that's a longer explanation).

2: What do the numbers mean? The first column is just the customer ID from the input - this could also be the customer name, for example. The second column is the # of bedrooms predicted by the algorithm - that is, the count of bedrooms that has the highest probability of all options given the input. The last column is the probability that the # of bedrooms would be 'Two or Three'.

What can you use this for? Take for example you were building a model to predict whether people would buy a product. You would want to predict which people would buy or not buy. In addition, you would probably want to contact those people with the highest probability of buying - therefore you need to use the PredictProbability function with a specified value. As you learn to use the product more, you will see that you can use the Profit Chart to determine the maximum profit for a marketing campaign using a Mining Model. The chart will give you a probability threshold. You want to use this threshold in a DMX query to select all customers who have a probability higher than that threshold in order to achieve maximum profit.

Hope this helps

-Jamie

i am unable to trieve the date in ms-access

hi friends,

I am trying to create alert system in which i can able to retrieve the date while configure the OleDbDataAdapter1 itself the

problem occurs this is the code i tired

select * from table name (username=?) and (date=)

after entering this error occurs

You haven't mentioned about SQL Server version you are using, refer to this http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Microsoft-Access/Configuring-a-Linked-Microsoft-Access-Server-on-SQL-2005-Server/ link in this case where it explains how you can achieve from SQL Server side.

IN SQL Server 2000 you can use DTS to get (import) the data from any other data provider and you can schedule the DTS package too.

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hi

i am not using MS SQL server but i am using ms access

i am unable to trieve the date in ms-access

hi friends,

I am trying to create alert system in which i can able to retrieve the date while configure the OleDbDataAdapter1 itself the

problem occurs this is the code i tired

select * from table name (username=?) and (date=)

after entering this error occurs

You haven't mentioned about SQL Server version you are using, refer to this http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Microsoft-Access/Configuring-a-Linked-Microsoft-Access-Server-on-SQL-2005-Server/ link in this case where it explains how you can achieve from SQL Server side.

IN SQL Server 2000 you can use DTS to get (import) the data from any other data provider and you can schedule the DTS package too.

|||

hi

i am not using MS SQL server but i am using ms access

i am unable to trieve the date in ms-access

hi friends,

I am trying to create alert system in which i can able to retrieve the date while configure the OleDbDataAdapter1 itself the

problem occurs this is the code i tired

select * from table name (username=?) and (date=)

after entering this error occurs

You haven't mentioned about SQL Server version you are using, refer to this http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Microsoft-Access/Configuring-a-Linked-Microsoft-Access-Server-on-SQL-2005-Server/ link in this case where it explains how you can achieve from SQL Server side.

IN SQL Server 2000 you can use DTS to get (import) the data from any other data provider and you can schedule the DTS package too.

|||

hi

i am not using MS SQL server but i am using ms access

I am new to this SQL Server Reporting Services. HELP

Hi Friends,

I am working on .Net tech with SQL Server 2000.

I want to update my technical skills to DW.

I mean, i planning to learn SQL Server Reporting Services and i am new this topic.

Please help me........

thanks

babu

my dear friend ,

i am also new to ssrs ... check this link

http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/SSRSandCR_Overview.asp

http://safari.oreilly.com/0596529414

atleast this will give little bit idea abt ssrs... if u get any resources...plz update here.......so that every one will know

u can also use microsoft virtual lab ...But as a beginneer still i am finding a resource for good foundation in ssrs......

Hyperlink

Dear friends,
How we can insert hyperlink column in a sql table? Is there is any datatype?
gracesonuse VARCHAR(255)|||If I remember correctly, if you want that other office applications would recognize the content of the field as a hyperlink, you should include it between "#', that is 'http://a.b.c' should be stored into your field as '#http://a.b.c#'

hw to add text in a 'select' statement

Hi Friends,
Could you tell me how to add text in a select statement.
For eg:
SELECT ((datepart(MM,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+ '-'
+(datepart(dd,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '-' +
datepart(yyyy,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))AS
"CURRENT_DATE"
..............ofcourse,this is not correct but it reflects my idea.
Thanks & Regards
Dutt
Seems you got the general idea. The problem is that DATEPART returns some integer value and you
cannot concatenate that with a string (the string will be converted to an int which will fail). So
you would have to do a CAST around each DATEPART call to make it some char or varchar. But check
first if there already exists a format for the CONVERT function that has the formatting you desire
(check the 3:rd parameter in Books Online).
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Dutt" <Mr.Dutt@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1140021331.883831.135940@.g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi Friends,
> Could you tell me how to add text in a select statement.
> For eg:
> SELECT ((datepart(MM,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+ '-'
> +(datepart(dd,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '-' +
> datepart(yyyy,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))AS
> "CURRENT_DATE"
> .............ofcourse,this is not correct but it reflects my idea.
> Thanks & Regards
> Dutt
>
|||Thanks Tibor,
Its really useful link....It worked .

hw to add text in a 'select' statement

Hi Friends,
Could you tell me how to add text in a select statement.
For eg:
SELECT ((datepart(MM,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+ '-'
+(datepart(dd,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '-' +
datepart(yyyy,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))AS
"CURRENT_DATE"
.............ofcourse,this is not correct but it reflects my idea.
Thanks & Regards
DuttSeems you got the general idea. The problem is that DATEPART returns some in
teger value and you
cannot concatenate that with a string (the string will be converted to an in
t which will fail). So
you would have to do a CAST around each DATEPART call to make it some char o
r varchar. But check
first if there already exists a format for the CONVERT function that has the
formatting you desire
(check the 3:rd parameter in Books Online).
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Dutt" <Mr.Dutt@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1140021331.883831.135940@.g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Friends,
> Could you tell me how to add text in a select statement.
> For eg:
> SELECT ((datepart(MM,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+ '-'
> +(datepart(dd,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '-' +
> datepart(yyyy,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))AS
> "CURRENT_DATE"
> .............ofcourse,this is not correct but it reflects my idea.
> Thanks & Regards
> Dutt
>|||Thanks Tibor,
Its really useful link....It worked .

hw to add text in a 'select' statement

Hi Friends,
Could you tell me how to add text in a select statement.
For eg:
SELECT ((datepart(MM,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+ '-'
+(datepart(dd,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '-' +
datepart(yyyy,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))AS
"CURRENT_DATE"
.............ofcourse,this is not correct but it reflects my idea.
Thanks & Regards
DuttSeems you got the general idea. The problem is that DATEPART returns some integer value and you
cannot concatenate that with a string (the string will be converted to an int which will fail). So
you would have to do a CAST around each DATEPART call to make it some char or varchar. But check
first if there already exists a format for the CONVERT function that has the formatting you desire
(check the 3:rd parameter in Books Online).
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Dutt" <Mr.Dutt@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1140021331.883831.135940@.g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Friends,
> Could you tell me how to add text in a select statement.
> For eg:
> SELECT ((datepart(MM,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+ '-'
> +(datepart(dd,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '-' +
> datepart(yyyy,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))AS
> "CURRENT_DATE"
> .............ofcourse,this is not correct but it reflects my idea.
> Thanks & Regards
> Dutt
>|||Thanks Tibor,
Its really useful link....It worked .