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Kinds of Data: 1. Data Bases Data 2.data Warehouses Data 3. Transactional Data
Kinds of Data: 1. Data Bases Data 2.data Warehouses Data 3. Transactional Data
Kinds of Data: 1. Data Bases Data 2.data Warehouses Data 3. Transactional Data
For example, a user may want to compare the general features of software
products with sales that increased by 10% last year against those with
sales that decreased by at least 30% during the same period.
Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations, and Correlations
Frequent patterns, as the name suggests, are patterns that occur frequently in
data.
The model are derived based on the analysis of a set of training data (i.e., data
objects for which the class labels are known).
A decision tree is a flowchart-like tree structure, where each node denotes a test
on an attribute value, each branch represents an outcome of the test, and tree
leaves represent classes or class distributions.
Database Systems and Data Warehouses
Business Intelligence
Search engines differ from web directories in that web directories are
maintained by human editors whereas search engines operate
algorithmically or by a mixture of algorithmic and human input.
Web search engines are essentially very large data mining applications.
Various data mining techniques are used in all aspects of search engines,
ranging from crawling , indexing and searching (e.g., deciding how pages
should be ranked, which advertisements should be added, and how the
search results can be personalized or made “context aware”).
Major Issues in Data Mining
Mining
Methodology
User Interaction
Efficiency and
Scalability
Diversity of Database
Types
Data Mining and
Society
Mining Methodology
Mining various and new kinds of knowledge: Data mining covers a wide spectrum
of data analysis and knowledge discovery tasks,
That is, we can search for interesting patterns among combinations of dimensions
(attributes) at varying levels of abstraction. Such mining is known as (exploratory)
multidimensional data mining.
For example,to mine data with natural language text, it makes sense to fuse data
mining methods with methods of information retrieval and natural language
processing.
Boosting the power of discovery in a networked environment:
Semantic links across multiple data objects can be used to advantage in data
mining.
Knowledge derived in one set of objects can be used to boost the discovery of
knowledge in a “related” or semantically linked set of objects.
Social impacts of data mining: With data mining penetrating our everyday lives,
it is important to study the impact of data mining on society.
Interactive mining: The data mining process should be highly interactive. Thus, it
is important to build flexible user interfaces and an exploratory mining
environment, facilitating the user’s interaction with the system.
Ad hoc data mining and data mining query languages: Query languages (e.g.,
SQL) have played an important role in flexible searching because they allow users
to pose ad hoc queries.
high-level data mining query languages or other high-level flexible user interfaces
will give users the freedom to define ad hoc data mining tasks