About This Guide

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This chapter contains the following sections:

How to Use this Book

This Addendum is designed to be used with the MineSet User's Guide . The User's Guide has not been modified for the 2.6 release, so this Addendum describes what is new and what has changed from release 2.5.

Note: If you want to use the Tech Pubs Library or IRIS InSight search engine to find information, search both the Addendum and the User's Guide to ensure that you find everything that is pertinent.

The following lists which tools are described in which books:

Decision Table		MineSet User's Guide for basic information and Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum for additions and changes in 2.6
Decision Tree		MineSet User's Guide for basic information and Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum for additions and changes in 2.6
Evidence Visualizer		MineSet User's Guide for basic information and Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum for additions and changes in 2.6
Histogram Visualizer		Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum
Record Viewer		Chapter 3, “Using the Record Viewer,” in this Addendum
Rules Visualizer		Chapter 2, “Using the Association Rules Tool,” and Appendix A, “Using the Association Rules Generator With Transaction-Style Data,” in this Addendum
Scatter Visualizer		MineSet User's Guide for basic information and Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum for additions and changes in 2.6
Web publishing option		Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum
Various new features		Chapter 1, “What's New in MineSet 2.6,” in this Addendum
All other tools and subjects		MineSet User's Guide

Where to Find More Information About Mineset

For more information about MineSet:

Visit http://mineset.sgi.com
Join the MineSet mailing list at http://mineset.sgi.com/maillist.html
Visit http://support.sgi.com
Call 1-800-800-4SGI (U.S. and Canada) or contact your local Silicon Graphics sales office outside the U.S. and Canada
Send e-mail to mineset@sgi.com for MineSet-specific problems

Illustrations in This Guide

The hard copy of this documentation provides all screen shots and illustrations in black and white. The online version, however, provides these visuals in full, original color. Thus, if you are reading the hard copy version and find a particular graphic or screen shot difficult to see, go to the respective page of the online version for greater clarity.

Typographical Conventions

The following type conventions and symbols are used in this guide:

Italics		Executable names, filenames, utilities, and variables to be supplied by the user.
Bold		Keywords and functions
`Fixed-width type`		On-screen command-line text and prompts.
`Bold fixed-width type`		User input, including keyboard keys (printing and non-printing); literals supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements.
[ ]		Syntax statement arguments surrounded by square brackets denote that these arguments are optional.

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