Select Data Mining Technique (Mining Model Wizard)

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Select Data Mining Technique (Mining Model Wizard)

In this step of the wizard, you select the algorithm used to build your mining model.

Options

Select a data mining technique

Choose from two available algorithms.

Option Description
Microsoft Clustering Select this option if you want to see general patterns or groupings in your data.
Microsoft Decision Trees This technique is useful if you want to make specific predictions from the source data. Select this option if you want to create a dimension from the analysis results or a virtual cube containing the new dimension in a later step of this wizard.

See Also

Data Mining Algorithms