MindsDB enormously simplifies the process of making machine learning based predictions. Intead of developing a model and prepare data, you can connect MindsDB to an external data source (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, other databases, or APIs) and run SQL queries about the future. Any AI engine (predictive algorithm) can be used.

1. Unleash AI power
With MySQL + MindsDB

2. AI is useful for everyone
Examples of predictions that many companies need:
● Sales (next year, in a store with certain characteristics…)
● Cost of providing a service
● Cost of IT infrastructure
● Website or app usage
● Disasters
But implementing Machine Learning is not easy
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3. The steps are (approximately):
1. Identify the problem
2. Understand the data to use
3. Prepare data
4. Train model
5. Evaluate model performance
6. Experiment with real data
7. Repeat some or all the steps above
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4. ● Step 3, Prepare data, is particularly complex:
○ Extract data from the source
○ Cleanse data
○ Aggregate data
○ Label data
○ Transform data
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5. ● And which people do you need to do all this?
At a minimum:
○ Data engineers to make the data available to:
○ Data scientists to create a model, train and test it
○ Marketing people who understand the data and need the
predictions
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6. ● MindsDB enormously simplifies the process!
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7. ● You connect it to external data sources (integrations)
MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra…
Apache Hive, Ignite…
OpenAI
Google Analytics
Paypal
Hubspot
OpenStreetMap
…
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8. ● You run SQL queries about the future, or other missing data
SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date > '2024-02-01';
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9. ● MindsDB predicts the missing data. Many AI engines are
available to do this
Lightwood, PyCaret
TimeGPT
LightFM, Polars
Replicate (images, videos)
…
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10. Why to use SQL?
● Easy to read and write
● It's been around since forever, still evolving
● Lingua franca for both humans and machines
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11. ● At Vettabase, we're proud to be the maintainer of
the MySQL MindsDB integration
● We made some usability enhancements, more will follow:
○ To connect MySQL a URL can be specified
○ Port is now optional (3306)
○ A query timeout can be specified
● We wrote a beginner article on MindsDB + MySQL
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