ORAL QUESTIONS UNIT V Q.1. What is data mining? Q.2. What are the different stages of data mining?

Q.3. How Data mining differs from exploratory data analysis? Q.4. Wht kind of data is collected in the process of data mining? Q.5. Why data mining is called knowledge discovery in database? Q.6. What is predictive data mining? Q.7. What are the models for data mining? Q.8. What can data mining do? Q.9. What is 'bagging'? Q.10. What is 'Boosting'? Q.11. What is 'Stacking'? Q.12. What is Outlier Analysis? Q.13. What kind of data can be mined? Q.14. How do we categorize data Mining systems? Q.15. What are the limitations of Data mining? Q.16. What are the uses of data mining? Q.17. What is interoperability in data mining? Q.18.What are the social and security issues regardin data mining? Q.19. what is distributed web mining? Q.20. What is incremental web mining? Q.21.Define filtering system or recommender system Q.22.Which are the information retrieval techniques ? Q.23.Define precision and recall Q.24.What are the text retrieval methods ? Q.25.What is degree of relevance ? Q.26.What is term-frequency and inverse document frequency ? Q.27.Which are the text retrieval indexing techniques Q.28.Define inverted indices and signature files.

Q.29.Which are the dimensionality reduction techniques ? Q.30.What are the different approaches to text mining ? Q.31.What is Clustering? Tell any clustering algorithm? Q.32.What is i/p and o/p for k-means clustering algorithm? Q.33.What is k-means clustering? Q.34.What are the applications of k-means clustering? Q.35. Give some Typical OLAP Operations. Q.36.Give Data Warehouse Usage/applications. Q.37.Differentiate OLTP vs. OLAP Q.38.What is Data Warehouse? Q.39.What is classification tree / decision tree? Q.40.What is regression tree? Q.41.Which path represent classification rule? Q.42.What is splitting attribute? Q.43.Draw an example of decision tree Q.44.Can we use association rules for prediction? Q.45.Explain Association Rules Q.46.Where can decision tree be used? Q.47.What is classification? Q.48.Explain Apriori algorithm?