Patent ID: 6865582

Claim:
In a system including spatial data for a spatial environment, wherein a recipe is used in the spatial environment, a method for mining the spatial data to optimize the recipe for one or more target values, the method comprising: an act of generating a data set from the spatial data using identified attributes selected by a user, the data set being varyingly complex based upon the identified attributes selected by the user; an act of partitioning the spatial data into a training set and at least one modeling set wherein the act of partitioning is selected from the group consisting of: selecting the training set such that the training set comprises a substantially homogenous spatial relationship to the at least one modeling set, and selecting the training set such that the training set comprises a substantially separate spatial relationship to the at least one modeling set; an act of inspecting the generated data set to provide statistical information for the data set; an act of preprocessing the data set to prepare the data set for modeling; an act of modeling the preprocessed data set to describe relationships between the attributes and the one or more target values; and an act of providing recommendations such that the recipe is optimized.