Orange Documentation

A collection of white papers, tutorials and reference guides is available for Orange. Orange widget catalog is in preparation, and to get a feeling how it will look like browse through the paper on Orange widgets for functional genomics.

White Papers

Orange: From Experimental Machine Learning to Interactive Data Mining
This is a core white paper to Orange, and gives some basic ideas of its design, architecture and history.
Orange Widgets
A white paper on Orange widgets gives a brief overview of how our visual programming interface with GUI components we call widgets are used to do explorative data analysis and visually construct applications of your need.
Installation for Mac OS
An installation guide for Orange on Mac OS X.
Orange Widgets for Functional Genomics
A tutorial-style catalog of Orange widgets we have developed to fit some tasks in functional genomics, with emphasis on microarray data analysis, GO gene annotation, and gene mapping.

On-Line Reference and Tutorials

The documentation posted on the web is updated from the CVS in real-time and refers to the latest snapshot of Orange. If you encounter any inconsistencies please compare the standalone documentation with the one on the web.

Orange for Beginners
If you are new to Orange, and are interesting in scripting in Python, this is where you should start.
Orange Reference Guide
This is the core reference guide to Orange. It describes the basic data structures used in Orange (such as examples, attributes...), preprocessing, learning and classifying etc.
Orange Modules
An average user will mostly call Orange through specialized Orange modules. Each module covers a specific task (discretization, feature subset selection, sampling, assessing models quality) or learning method.
Orange Widgets
This is a tutorial that should help you start writing your own widgets. Widgets are often quite simple pieces of code, consisting of few hundred lines. They are easy to build and may offer quite a satisfaction when used in interaction with other widgets in Orange.

Flyers

Orange
Two pages about Orange data mining framework.
Orange Scripting
In brief about scripting in Python for machine learning and data mining.
Orange Visual Programming
Starter for visual programming in Orange, Orange widgets and data mining schemas.