The start-up screen has a standard structure showing all the fields of the file with the field name on the left.

If you wish to do some data-mining or selection on certain fields then simply click on those field names. When you click on the field it will become red, clicking again on that label will return the colour to black.

When you have selected the required fields, eg Age, Sex and Zip-Code click on the “Show all Records” button.

You can double click on a label to both select that label and to activate the select records functionality.

Please note that certain of the command buttons have disappeared since we have now moved into a different mode, namely the mining mode as opposed to the record display mode.

The selected rows have now been converted to a horizontal histogram where each individual element represents the frequency of that value in the file.

Already you can see that the majority of the patients in this file are in the Zip-Code area of 90046, there are approximately 10% more Females than Males.

Hovering the mouse above any element will display its contents in a tool-tip eg.

A right mouse click on any of the elements including the labels will display a drop-down menu which will enable a multitude of functions

Depending on where you have clicked:

Clicking on the Field-Name (Zip) displays a slightly different list of functions.

Clicking on the Field-Name (Age) the Display Average is added to the function list since this field is a numeric field.