This document outlines a chapter on data preprocessing that discusses data types, attributes, and preprocessing tasks. It begins by defining data and attributes, then describes different types of attributes like nominal, binary, ordinal, and numeric attributes. It also discusses different types of datasets like records, documents, transactions, and graphs. The major section on data preprocessing outlines why it is important and describes tasks like data cleaning, integration, transformation, reduction, and discretization to prepare dirty or unstructured data for analysis.
The document introduces data preprocessing techniques for data mining. It discusses why data preprocessing is important due to real-world data often being dirty, incomplete, noisy, inconsistent or duplicate. It then describes common data types and quality issues like missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates. The major tasks of data preprocessing are outlined as data cleaning, integration, transformation and reduction. Specific techniques for handling missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates are also summarized.
This document discusses techniques for data reduction to reduce the size of large datasets for analysis. It describes five main strategies for data reduction: data cube aggregation, dimensionality reduction, data compression, numerosity reduction, and discretization. Data cube aggregation involves aggregating data at higher conceptual levels, such as aggregating quarterly sales data to annual totals. Dimensionality reduction removes redundant attributes. The document then focuses on attribute subset selection techniques, including stepwise forward selection, stepwise backward elimination, and combinations of the two, to select a minimal set of relevant attributes. Decision trees can also be used for attribute selection by removing attributes not used in the tree.
This document provides an overview of the introductory lecture to the BS in Data Science program. It discusses key topics that were covered in the lecture, including recommended books and chapters to be covered. It provides a brief introduction to key terminologies in data science, such as different data types, scales of measurement, and basic concepts. It also discusses the current landscape of data science, including the difference between roles of data scientists in academia versus industry.
The document discusses data preprocessing techniques. It explains that data preprocessing is important because real-world data is often noisy, incomplete, and inconsistent. The key techniques covered are data cleaning, integration, reduction, and transformation. Data cleaning handles missing values, noise, and outliers. Data integration merges data from multiple sources. Data reduction reduces data size through techniques like dimensionality reduction. Data transformation normalizes and aggregates data to make it suitable for mining.
Association rule mining finds frequent patterns and correlations among items in transaction databases. It involves two main steps:
1) Frequent itemset generation: Finds itemsets that occur together in a minimum number of transactions (above a support threshold). This is done efficiently using the Apriori algorithm.
2) Rule generation: Generates rules from frequent itemsets where the confidence (fraction of transactions with left hand side that also contain right hand side) is above a minimum threshold. Rules are a partitioning of an itemset into left and right sides.
Data is often incomplete, noisy, and inconsistent which can negatively impact mining results. Effective data cleaning is needed to fill in missing values, identify and remove outliers, and resolve inconsistencies. Other important tasks include data integration, transformation, reduction, and discretization to prepare the data for mining and obtain reduced representation that produces similar analytical results. Proper data preparation is essential for high quality knowledge discovery.
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This document discusses classification and decision trees. It defines classification as predicting categorical class labels using a model constructed from a training set. Decision trees are a popular classification method that operate in a top-down recursive manner, splitting the data into purer subsets based on attribute values. The algorithm selects the optimal splitting attribute using an evaluation metric like information gain at each step until it reaches a leaf node containing only one class.
The document introduces data preprocessing techniques for data mining. It discusses why data preprocessing is important due to real-world data often being dirty, incomplete, noisy, inconsistent or duplicate. It then describes common data types and quality issues like missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates. The major tasks of data preprocessing are outlined as data cleaning, integration, transformation and reduction. Specific techniques for handling missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates are also summarized.
This document discusses techniques for data reduction to reduce the size of large datasets for analysis. It describes five main strategies for data reduction: data cube aggregation, dimensionality reduction, data compression, numerosity reduction, and discretization. Data cube aggregation involves aggregating data at higher conceptual levels, such as aggregating quarterly sales data to annual totals. Dimensionality reduction removes redundant attributes. The document then focuses on attribute subset selection techniques, including stepwise forward selection, stepwise backward elimination, and combinations of the two, to select a minimal set of relevant attributes. Decision trees can also be used for attribute selection by removing attributes not used in the tree.
This document provides an overview of the introductory lecture to the BS in Data Science program. It discusses key topics that were covered in the lecture, including recommended books and chapters to be covered. It provides a brief introduction to key terminologies in data science, such as different data types, scales of measurement, and basic concepts. It also discusses the current landscape of data science, including the difference between roles of data scientists in academia versus industry.
The document discusses data preprocessing techniques. It explains that data preprocessing is important because real-world data is often noisy, incomplete, and inconsistent. The key techniques covered are data cleaning, integration, reduction, and transformation. Data cleaning handles missing values, noise, and outliers. Data integration merges data from multiple sources. Data reduction reduces data size through techniques like dimensionality reduction. Data transformation normalizes and aggregates data to make it suitable for mining.
Association rule mining finds frequent patterns and correlations among items in transaction databases. It involves two main steps:
1) Frequent itemset generation: Finds itemsets that occur together in a minimum number of transactions (above a support threshold). This is done efficiently using the Apriori algorithm.
2) Rule generation: Generates rules from frequent itemsets where the confidence (fraction of transactions with left hand side that also contain right hand side) is above a minimum threshold. Rules are a partitioning of an itemset into left and right sides.
Data is often incomplete, noisy, and inconsistent which can negatively impact mining results. Effective data cleaning is needed to fill in missing values, identify and remove outliers, and resolve inconsistencies. Other important tasks include data integration, transformation, reduction, and discretization to prepare the data for mining and obtain reduced representation that produces similar analytical results. Proper data preparation is essential for high quality knowledge discovery.
2.1 Data Mining-classification Basic conceptsKrish_ver2
This document discusses classification and decision trees. It defines classification as predicting categorical class labels using a model constructed from a training set. Decision trees are a popular classification method that operate in a top-down recursive manner, splitting the data into purer subsets based on attribute values. The algorithm selects the optimal splitting attribute using an evaluation metric like information gain at each step until it reaches a leaf node containing only one class.
Data mining involves multiple steps in the knowledge discovery process including data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, mining, and pattern evaluation. It has various functionalities including descriptive mining to characterize data, predictive mining for inference, and different mining techniques like classification, association analysis, clustering, and outlier analysis.
The document discusses the K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) classifier, a machine learning algorithm where data is classified based on its similarity to its nearest neighbors. K-NN is a lazy learning algorithm that assigns data points to the most common class among its K nearest neighbors. The value of K impacts the classification, with larger K values reducing noise but possibly oversmoothing boundaries. K-NN is simple, intuitive, and can handle non-linear decision boundaries, but has disadvantages such as computational expense and sensitivity to K value selection.
Bayesian classification is a statistical classification method that uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability of class membership. It provides probabilistic predictions by calculating the probabilities of classes for new data based on training data. The naive Bayesian classifier is a simple Bayesian model that assumes conditional independence between attributes, allowing faster computation. Bayesian belief networks are graphical models that represent dependencies between variables using a directed acyclic graph and conditional probability tables.
Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique used to group unlabeled data points together based on similarities. It aims to maximize similarity within clusters and minimize similarity between clusters. There are several clustering methods including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, grid-based, and model-based. Clustering has many applications such as pattern recognition, image processing, market research, and bioinformatics. It is useful for extracting hidden patterns from large, complex datasets.
The document discusses sequential pattern mining, which involves finding frequently occurring ordered sequences or subsequences in sequence databases. It covers key concepts like sequential patterns, sequence databases, support count, and subsequences. It also describes several algorithms for sequential pattern mining, including GSP (Generalized Sequential Patterns) which uses a candidate generation and test approach, SPADE which works on a vertical data format, and PrefixSpan which employs a prefix-projected sequential pattern growth approach without candidate generation.
1. The document provides an overview of key concepts in data science and machine learning including the data science process, types of data, machine learning techniques, and Python tools used for machine learning.
2. It describes the typical 6 step data science process: setting goals, data retrieval, data preparation, exploration, modeling, and presentation.
3. Different types of data are discussed including structured, unstructured, machine-generated, graph-based, and audio/video data.
4. Machine learning techniques can be supervised, unsupervised, or semi-supervised depending on whether labeled data is used.
This document discusses data cubes, which are multidimensional data structures used in online analytical processing (OLAP) to enable fast retrieval of data organized by dimensions and measures. Data cubes can have 2-3 dimensions or more and contain measures like costs or units. Key concepts are slicing to select a 2D page, dicing to define a subcube, and rotating to change dimensional orientation. Data cubes represent categories through dimensions and levels, and store facts as measures in cells. They can be pre-computed fully, not at all, or partially to balance query speed and memory usage. Totals can also be stored to improve performance of aggregate queries.
The document discusses data cubes and multidimensional data models. It provides examples of 2D and 3D data cubes to represent sales data with dimensions of time, item, and location. A data cube is a metaphor for storing multidimensional data without redundancy. Common schemas for multidimensional data include star schemas with a central fact table linked to dimension tables, snowflake schemas with some normalized dimension tables, and fact constellations with multiple linked fact tables. Dimension hierarchies allow mapping of low-level concepts like cities to higher-level concepts like states/provinces.
This document discusses various clustering analysis methods including k-means, k-medoids (PAM), and CLARA. It explains that clustering involves grouping similar objects together without predefined classes. Partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids (PAM) assign objects to clusters to optimize a criterion function. K-means uses cluster centroids while k-medoids uses actual data points as cluster representatives. PAM is more robust to outliers than k-means but does not scale well to large datasets, so CLARA applies PAM to samples of the data. Examples of clustering applications include market segmentation, land use analysis, and earthquake studies.
The document discusses frequent pattern mining and the Apriori algorithm. It introduces frequent patterns as frequently occurring sets of items in transaction data. The Apriori algorithm is described as a seminal method for mining frequent itemsets via multiple passes over the data, generating candidate itemsets and pruning those that are not frequent. Challenges with Apriori include multiple database scans and large number of candidate sets generated.
Data preprocessing techniques
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Machine Learning - Accuracy and Confusion MatrixAndrew Ferlitsch
Abstract: This PDSG workshop introduces basic concepts on measuring accuracy of your trained model. Concepts covered are loss functions and confusion matrices.
Level: Fundamental
Requirements: No prior programming or statistics knowledge required.
Chapter - 6 Data Mining Concepts and Techniques 2nd Ed slides Han & Kambererror007
The document describes Chapter 6 of the book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" which covers the topics of classification and prediction. It defines classification and prediction and discusses key issues in classification such as data preparation, evaluating methods, and decision tree induction. Decision tree induction creates a tree model by recursively splitting the training data on attributes and their values to make predictions. The chapter also covers other classification methods like Bayesian classification, rule-based classification, and support vector machines. It describes the process of model construction from training data and then using the model to classify new, unlabeled data.
This document discusses time-series data and methods for analyzing it. Time-series data consists of sequential values measured over time that can be analyzed to identify patterns, trends, and outliers. Key methods discussed include trend analysis to identify long-term movements, seasonal variations, and irregular components; similarity search to find similar sequences; and dimensionality reduction and transformation techniques to reduce data size before analysis or indexing.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the course "Knowledge Representation & Reasoning" taught by Ms. Jawairya Bukhari. It discusses the aims of developing skills in knowledge representation and reasoning using different representation methods. It outlines prerequisites like artificial intelligence, logic, and programming. Key topics covered include symbolic and non-symbolic knowledge representation methods, types of knowledge, languages for knowledge representation like propositional logic, and what knowledge representation encompasses.
K-Folds cross-validation is one method that attempts to maximize the use of the available data for training and then testing a model. It is particularly useful for assessing model performance, as it provides a range of accuracy scores across (somewhat) different data sets.
The document discusses the process of knowledge discovery in databases (KDP). It provides the following key points:
1. KDP involves discovering useful information from data through steps like data cleaning, transformation, mining and pattern evaluation.
2. Several KDP models have been developed, including academic models with 9 steps, industrial models with 5-6 steps, and hybrid models combining aspects of both.
3. A widely used model is CRISP-DM, which stands for Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining and has 6 steps: business understanding, data understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment.
This document provides an overview of different types of data that can be analyzed using data mining and machine learning techniques. It discusses record data, data matrices, document data, transaction data, graph data, ordered data, and more. It also covers important data quality issues like noise, outliers, missing values, and duplicate data. Common data preprocessing techniques are explained such as aggregation, sampling, dimensionality reduction, feature selection and creation, and attribute transformation. Finally, measures of similarity and dissimilarity between data objects are introduced, including Euclidean distance and Minkowski distance.
Data mining involves multiple steps in the knowledge discovery process including data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, mining, and pattern evaluation. It has various functionalities including descriptive mining to characterize data, predictive mining for inference, and different mining techniques like classification, association analysis, clustering, and outlier analysis.
The document discusses the K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) classifier, a machine learning algorithm where data is classified based on its similarity to its nearest neighbors. K-NN is a lazy learning algorithm that assigns data points to the most common class among its K nearest neighbors. The value of K impacts the classification, with larger K values reducing noise but possibly oversmoothing boundaries. K-NN is simple, intuitive, and can handle non-linear decision boundaries, but has disadvantages such as computational expense and sensitivity to K value selection.
Bayesian classification is a statistical classification method that uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability of class membership. It provides probabilistic predictions by calculating the probabilities of classes for new data based on training data. The naive Bayesian classifier is a simple Bayesian model that assumes conditional independence between attributes, allowing faster computation. Bayesian belief networks are graphical models that represent dependencies between variables using a directed acyclic graph and conditional probability tables.
Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique used to group unlabeled data points together based on similarities. It aims to maximize similarity within clusters and minimize similarity between clusters. There are several clustering methods including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, grid-based, and model-based. Clustering has many applications such as pattern recognition, image processing, market research, and bioinformatics. It is useful for extracting hidden patterns from large, complex datasets.
The document discusses sequential pattern mining, which involves finding frequently occurring ordered sequences or subsequences in sequence databases. It covers key concepts like sequential patterns, sequence databases, support count, and subsequences. It also describes several algorithms for sequential pattern mining, including GSP (Generalized Sequential Patterns) which uses a candidate generation and test approach, SPADE which works on a vertical data format, and PrefixSpan which employs a prefix-projected sequential pattern growth approach without candidate generation.
1. The document provides an overview of key concepts in data science and machine learning including the data science process, types of data, machine learning techniques, and Python tools used for machine learning.
2. It describes the typical 6 step data science process: setting goals, data retrieval, data preparation, exploration, modeling, and presentation.
3. Different types of data are discussed including structured, unstructured, machine-generated, graph-based, and audio/video data.
4. Machine learning techniques can be supervised, unsupervised, or semi-supervised depending on whether labeled data is used.
This document discusses data cubes, which are multidimensional data structures used in online analytical processing (OLAP) to enable fast retrieval of data organized by dimensions and measures. Data cubes can have 2-3 dimensions or more and contain measures like costs or units. Key concepts are slicing to select a 2D page, dicing to define a subcube, and rotating to change dimensional orientation. Data cubes represent categories through dimensions and levels, and store facts as measures in cells. They can be pre-computed fully, not at all, or partially to balance query speed and memory usage. Totals can also be stored to improve performance of aggregate queries.
The document discusses data cubes and multidimensional data models. It provides examples of 2D and 3D data cubes to represent sales data with dimensions of time, item, and location. A data cube is a metaphor for storing multidimensional data without redundancy. Common schemas for multidimensional data include star schemas with a central fact table linked to dimension tables, snowflake schemas with some normalized dimension tables, and fact constellations with multiple linked fact tables. Dimension hierarchies allow mapping of low-level concepts like cities to higher-level concepts like states/provinces.
This document discusses various clustering analysis methods including k-means, k-medoids (PAM), and CLARA. It explains that clustering involves grouping similar objects together without predefined classes. Partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids (PAM) assign objects to clusters to optimize a criterion function. K-means uses cluster centroids while k-medoids uses actual data points as cluster representatives. PAM is more robust to outliers than k-means but does not scale well to large datasets, so CLARA applies PAM to samples of the data. Examples of clustering applications include market segmentation, land use analysis, and earthquake studies.
The document discusses frequent pattern mining and the Apriori algorithm. It introduces frequent patterns as frequently occurring sets of items in transaction data. The Apriori algorithm is described as a seminal method for mining frequent itemsets via multiple passes over the data, generating candidate itemsets and pruning those that are not frequent. Challenges with Apriori include multiple database scans and large number of candidate sets generated.
Data preprocessing techniques
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Machine Learning - Accuracy and Confusion MatrixAndrew Ferlitsch
Abstract: This PDSG workshop introduces basic concepts on measuring accuracy of your trained model. Concepts covered are loss functions and confusion matrices.
Level: Fundamental
Requirements: No prior programming or statistics knowledge required.
Chapter - 6 Data Mining Concepts and Techniques 2nd Ed slides Han & Kambererror007
The document describes Chapter 6 of the book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" which covers the topics of classification and prediction. It defines classification and prediction and discusses key issues in classification such as data preparation, evaluating methods, and decision tree induction. Decision tree induction creates a tree model by recursively splitting the training data on attributes and their values to make predictions. The chapter also covers other classification methods like Bayesian classification, rule-based classification, and support vector machines. It describes the process of model construction from training data and then using the model to classify new, unlabeled data.
This document discusses time-series data and methods for analyzing it. Time-series data consists of sequential values measured over time that can be analyzed to identify patterns, trends, and outliers. Key methods discussed include trend analysis to identify long-term movements, seasonal variations, and irregular components; similarity search to find similar sequences; and dimensionality reduction and transformation techniques to reduce data size before analysis or indexing.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the course "Knowledge Representation & Reasoning" taught by Ms. Jawairya Bukhari. It discusses the aims of developing skills in knowledge representation and reasoning using different representation methods. It outlines prerequisites like artificial intelligence, logic, and programming. Key topics covered include symbolic and non-symbolic knowledge representation methods, types of knowledge, languages for knowledge representation like propositional logic, and what knowledge representation encompasses.
K-Folds cross-validation is one method that attempts to maximize the use of the available data for training and then testing a model. It is particularly useful for assessing model performance, as it provides a range of accuracy scores across (somewhat) different data sets.
The document discusses the process of knowledge discovery in databases (KDP). It provides the following key points:
1. KDP involves discovering useful information from data through steps like data cleaning, transformation, mining and pattern evaluation.
2. Several KDP models have been developed, including academic models with 9 steps, industrial models with 5-6 steps, and hybrid models combining aspects of both.
3. A widely used model is CRISP-DM, which stands for Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining and has 6 steps: business understanding, data understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment.
This document provides an overview of different types of data that can be analyzed using data mining and machine learning techniques. It discusses record data, data matrices, document data, transaction data, graph data, ordered data, and more. It also covers important data quality issues like noise, outliers, missing values, and duplicate data. Common data preprocessing techniques are explained such as aggregation, sampling, dimensionality reduction, feature selection and creation, and attribute transformation. Finally, measures of similarity and dissimilarity between data objects are introduced, including Euclidean distance and Minkowski distance.
This document provides an overview of key concepts related to data and data preprocessing. It defines data as a collection of objects and their attributes. Attributes can be nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. Data can take the form of records, graphs, ordered sequences, or other types. The document discusses attribute values, data quality issues like noise, outliers, and missing values. It also covers common preprocessing techniques like aggregation, sampling, dimensionality reduction, feature selection and creation, and discretization. Finally, it introduces concepts of similarity and dissimilarity measures between data objects.
This document summarizes key concepts about data that were covered in a lecture. It discusses the definition of data as a collection of objects and their attributes. It describes different types of attributes and data, including record data, document data, and transaction data. It also covers important characteristics of data like dimensionality and size. Finally, it discusses various data preprocessing techniques such as sampling, discretization, and feature selection.
The document discusses using a member's engagement data within an organization's database to develop an "affinity score" that can help identify passionate donors. It describes calculating a score based on attributes like address/contact info, dues payments, donations, and event attendance. Higher scores indicate members more likely to donate. The sorority tests affinity scoring by targeting solicitations to members with scores of 8 or more, seeing increased response rates. Affinity scoring helps development staff identify high-value prospects and tailor fundraising campaigns.
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Big Data helps companies to generate valuable insights. Companies use Big Data to refine their marketing campaigns and techniques. Companies use it in machine learning projects to train machines, predictive modeling, and other advanced analytics applications.
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This document discusses data mining and provides examples of its applications. It begins by explaining why data is mined from both commercial and scientific viewpoints in order to discover useful patterns and information. It then discusses some of the challenges of data mining, such as dealing with large datasets, high dimensionality, complex data types, and distributed data sources. The document outlines common data mining tasks like classification, clustering, association rule mining, and regression. It provides real-world examples of how these techniques are used for applications like fraud detection, customer profiling, and scientific discovery.
Understanding big data and data analytics - Data MiningSeta Wicaksana
For businesses, data mining is used to discover patterns and relationships in the data in order to help make better business decisions. Data mining can help spot sales trends, develop smarter marketing campaigns, and accurately predict customer loyalty.
This document discusses data preprocessing techniques. It begins by explaining why preprocessing is important due to real-world data often being dirty, incomplete, noisy, or inconsistent. The main tasks of preprocessing are then outlined as data cleaning, integration, reduction, and transformation. Specific techniques for handling missing data, noisy data, and data integration are then described. Methods for data reduction through dimensionality reduction, numerosity reduction, and discretization are also summarized.
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This document provides an overview of a data mining course. It discusses that the course will be taught by George Kollios and will cover topics like data warehouses, association rule mining, clustering, classification, and advanced topics. It also outlines the grading breakdown and schedule. Additionally, it defines data mining and describes common data mining tasks like classification, clustering, and association rule mining. It provides examples of applications and discusses the data mining process.
This document provides an overview and introduction to a data mining course. It discusses the instructor, meeting times, grading breakdown, and an overview of topics to be covered including data warehousing, association rules mining, clustering, classification, sequential pattern mining, and advanced topics. Key terms related to data mining like data, patterns, attributes, and interestingness are also defined. The data mining process and examples of applications are outlined.
This document provides an overview of a data mining course. It discusses that the course will be taught by George Kollios and will cover topics like data warehouses, association rule mining, clustering, classification, and advanced topics. It also outlines the grading breakdown and schedule. Additionally, it defines data mining and describes common data mining tasks like classification, clustering, and association rule mining. It provides examples of applications and discusses the data mining process.
The document summarizes key points from Chapter 2 of the book "Data Science" by Kelleher and Tierney. It discusses what data and datasets are, the different types of attributes that compose datasets, and potential sources of bias. It also outlines models for understanding data, including the DIKW pyramid and the CRISP-DM process for data mining projects.
A data warehouse uses a multi-dimensional data model to consolidate data from multiple sources and support analysis. It uses a star schema with fact and dimension tables or a snowflake schema that normalizes dimensions. This allows for interactive exploration of data through OLAP operations like roll-up, drill-down, slice and dice to gain business insights. The document provides an overview of data warehousing concepts like schemas, cubes, measures and hierarchies to model and analyze historical data for decision making.
This document provides an overview of a course on data warehousing, filtering, and mining. The course is being taught in Fall 2004 at Temple University. The document includes the course syllabus which outlines topics like data warehousing, OLAP technology, data preprocessing, mining association rules, classification, cluster analysis, and mining complex data types. Grading will be based on assignments, quizzes, a presentation, individual project, and final exam. The document also provides introductory material on data mining including definitions and examples.
Data preparation involves collecting, cleaning, integrating, and reducing data from multiple sources. Common data quality issues include missing or incorrect values, inconsistencies, and redundancy. Data must be cleaned by filling in missing values, resolving inconsistencies, removing outliers and noisy data. Integrating data from different sources requires resolving issues like different data formats, structures, and levels of detail. Dimensionality reduction and sampling techniques can reduce data volume for analysis while maintaining quality. Data transformation through normalization and discretization further prepares data for mining.
- Big data is growing rapidly in both commercial and scientific databases. Data mining is commonly used to extract useful information from large datasets. It helps with customer service, hypothesis formation, and more.
- Recent technological advances are generating large amounts of medical and genomic data. Data mining offers potential solutions for automated analysis of patient histories, gene function prediction, and drug discovery. Traditional techniques may be unsuitable due to data enormity, dimensionality, and heterogeneity.
- Data mining involves tasks like classification, association rule mining, clustering, and outlier detection. Various machine learning algorithms are applied including decision trees, naive Bayes, and neural networks.
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This document discusses various computer arithmetic operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for signed magnitude and two's complement data representations. It describes the Booth multiplication algorithm, array multipliers for performing multiplication using combinational circuits, and the division algorithm. It also covers detecting divide overflow conditions.
The document provides an introduction to computer security including:
- The basic components of security such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Common security threats like snooping, modification, and denial of service attacks.
- Issues with security including operational challenges and human factors.
- An overview of security policies, access control models, and security models like Bell-LaPadula and Biba.
Cookies and sessions allow servers to remember information about users across multiple web pages. Cookies are small files stored on a user's computer that identify users and can store data to be accessed on subsequent page requests. Sessions use cookies to identify users and store temporary data on the server side to be accessed across multiple pages in one application, such as usernames or preferences. Both cookies and sessions must be started before any page output to ensure headers are sent before the page body.
This document discusses different aspects of functions in programming including declaring and calling functions, passing arguments to functions, and returning values from functions. It also covers variable scope. Some key points covered are declaring functions with and without arguments, specifying default values, returning single values or arrays from functions, and understanding variable scope and how it relates to the global and $GLOBALS keywords and array.
This document discusses various aspects of working with web forms in PHP, including:
1) Useful server variables for forms like QUERY_STRING and SERVER_NAME.
2) Accessing form parameters submitted to the server.
3) Processing forms with functions, including validating form data with techniques like checking for required fields and valid email addresses.
4) Displaying default values or error messages for form fields.
5) Stripping HTML tags from form inputs and encoding special characters for safe display.
The document provides examples of implementing each of these techniques.
The document discusses various programming concepts related to decision making and repetition in code including understanding true and false values, using if/elseif/else statements, equality and relational operators, logical operators, and using while and for loops to repeat code. Specific topics covered include evaluating booleans, making single and multi-line if statements, comparing different data types, negation, and printing select menus with loops.
This document discusses working with arrays in PHP. It covers array basics like creating and accessing arrays, looping through arrays with foreach and for loops, modifying arrays by adding/removing elements and sorting arrays. It also discusses multidimensional arrays, how to create them and access elements within them.
This document discusses text and numbers in programming. It covers defining and manipulating text strings using single or double quotes. Escape characters can be used inside strings. Text can be validated and formatted using various string functions like trim(), strlen(), strtoupper(), substr(), and str_replace(). Numbers can be integers or floats. Variables hold data and can be operated on with arithmetic and assignment operators like +, -, *, /, %, and .=. Variables can also be incremented, decremented, and placed inside strings.
This document provides an introduction and overview of PHP for beginners. It discusses PHP's use for building websites, how PHP code is run on web servers and accessed through browsers. It then highlights some key advantages of PHP like being free, cross-platform, and widely used. It demonstrates a basic "Hello World" PHP program and shows how to output HTML forms and formatted numbers. Finally, it outlines some basic rules of PHP programs regarding tags, syntax, whitespace, comments, and case sensitivity.
The document discusses capacity planning for a data warehouse environment. It notes that capacity planning is important given the large volumes of data and processing in a data warehouse. It describes factors that make capacity planning unique for a data warehouse, such as variable workloads and larger data volumes than operational systems. The document provides guidance on estimating disk storage needs, classifying and estimating processing workloads, creating workload profiles, identifying peak capacity needs, and selecting hardware capacity to meet needs.
Data warehousing involves assembling and managing data from various sources to provide an integrated view of enterprise information. A data warehouse contains consolidated, historical data used to support management decision making. It differs from operational databases by containing aggregated, non-volatile data optimized for queries rather than updates. The extract, transform, load (ETL) process migrates data from source systems to the warehouse, transforming it as needed. Process managers oversee loading, maintaining, and querying the warehouse data.
Search engines allow users to search the vast collection of documents on the web. They consist of crawlers that fetch web pages, indexers that analyze page content and links, and interfaces that allow users to enter queries. Crawlers add pages to an index by following links, and indexers create inverted indexes to map words to pages. When a query is searched, results are retrieved from the index and ranked based on relevance. PageRank is a key algorithm that ranks pages higher that receive more links from other highly ranked pages. While it effectively searches the large, diverse and dynamic web, search poses challenges in understanding ambiguous queries over an evolving collection.
Web mining involves applying data mining techniques to discover useful information from web data. There are three types of web mining: web content mining analyzes data within web pages, web structure mining examines the hyperlink structure between pages, and web usage mining involves analyzing server logs to discover patterns in user behavior and interactions with websites. Web mining has applications in website design, web traffic analysis, e-commerce personalization, and security/crime investigation.
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2. Outline of the chapter
• Data types and attribute types
• Data pre- processing
• OLAP
• Characteristics of OLAP Systems
• Multidimensional views and data cubes
• Data cube implementations
• Data cube operations
• Guidelines for OLAP Implementation.
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3. 2.1. Data types and attribute types
• Outline:
– Attributes and Objects
– Types of Data
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4. What is Data?
• Collection of data objects
and their attributes
• An attribute is a property or
characteristic of an object
– Examples: eye color of a person,
temperature, etc.
– Attribute is also known as
variable, field, characteristic,
dimension, or feature
• A collection of attributes
describe an object
– Object is also known as record,
point, case, sample, entity, or
instance
Tid Refund Marital
Status
Taxable
Income Cheat
1 Yes Single 125K No
2 No Married 100K No
3 No Single 70K No
4 Yes Married 120K No
5 No Divorced 95K Yes
6 No Married 60K No
7 Yes Divorced 220K No
8 No Single 85K Yes
9 No Married 75K No
10 No Single 90K Yes
10
Attributes/ dimension
Objects
5. Attribute Values
• Attribute values are numbers or symbols assigned to an
attribute for a particular object
• Distinction between attributes and attribute values
– Same attribute can be mapped to different attribute values
• Example: height can be measured in feet or meters
– Different attributes can be mapped to the same set of values
• Example: Attribute values for ID and age are integers
• But properties of attribute values can be different
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6. Types of Attributes
• The type of attribute is determined by the set of
possible values the attribute can have.
• There are different types of attributes:
– Nominal attributes
– Binary attributes
– Ordinal attributes
– Numeric attributes
• Interval-scaled attributes
• Ratio-scaled attributes
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7. Contd..
• Nominal Attributes:
– Nominal means “relating to names.”
– The values of a nominal attribute are symbols or names of
things.
– Each value represents some kind of category, code, or state, and
so nominal attributes are also referred to as categorical.
– The values do not have any meaningful order.
– E.g., : Hair_color = { black, brown, grey, red, white, etc}
Marital _status= { single, married, divorced}
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8. Contd..
• Binary Attributes:
– A binary attribute is a nominal attribute with only two categories or states:
0 or 1, where 0 typically means that the attribute is absent, and 1 means
that it is present.
– Symmetric binary: both outcomes equally important
• e.g., gender = {male ,female}
– Asymmetric binary: outcomes not equally important.
• e.g., medical test (positive vs. negative)
• Convention: assign 1 to most important outcome(rarest)
(e.g., HIV positive) and other by 0(e.g., HIV negative)
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9. Contd..
• Ordinal Attribute:
– An ordinal attribute is an attribute with possible values that
have a meaningful order or ranking among them, but the
magnitude between successive values is not known.
– E.g.: suppose that drink size corresponds to the size of drinks available at
a fast-food restaurant. This nominal attribute has three possible values:
small, medium, and large. The values have a meaningful sequence (which
corresponds to increasing drink size); however, we cannot tell from the
values how much bigger, say, a medium is than a large.
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10. Contd..
• Numeric Attributes:
– It is a measurable quantity, represented in integer or real values.
– Numeric attributes can be interval-scaled or ratio-scaled.
– Interval-scaled :
• Interval-scaled attributes are measured on a scale of equal-size units.
• E.g.: calendar dates, temperature in Celsius
– Ratio-scaled attributes:
• a value as being a multiple (or ratio) of another value.
• it has a zero point or character of origin
• Ratio are meaningful
• examples are height, weight, money, age
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11. Discrete vs. Continuous Attributes
• There are many ways to organize attribute types.
• Discrete Attribute
– Has only a finite or countably infinite set of values
• E.g., Roll number, the set of words in a collection of
documents
– Note: Binary attributes are a special case of discrete attributes
• Continuous Attribute
– Has real numbers as attribute values
• E.g., temperature, Speed, etc
– Continuous attributes are typically represented as floating-point
variables
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12. Properties of Attribute Values
• Distinctness: = ≠
• Order: < >
• Addition: + -
• Multiplication: * /
– Nominal attribute: distinctness
– Ordinal attribute: distinctness & order
– Interval attribute: distinctness, order & addition
– Ratio attribute: all 4 properties
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13. Types of data sets
• Record
– Data Matrix
– Document Data
– Transaction Data
• Graph
– World Wide Web
– Generic graph
– Social or information networks
• Ordered
– Spatial Data
– Temporal Data
– Sequential Data
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14. Record Data
• Data that consists of a collection of records, each of which consists of a
fixed set of attributes
Tid Refund Marital
Status
Taxable
Income Cheat
1 Yes Single 125K No
2 No Married 100K No
3 No Single 70K No
4 Yes Married 120K No
5 No Divorced 95K Yes
6 No Married 60K No
7 Yes Divorced 220K No
8 No Single 85K Yes
9 No Married 75K No
10 No Single 90K Yes
10
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15. Data Matrix
• If data objects have the same fixed set of numeric attributes, then the
data objects can be thought of as points in a multi-dimensional space,
where each dimension represents a distinct attribute
• Such data set can be represented by an m by n matrix, where there
are m rows, one for each object, and n columns, one for each attribute
1.12.216.226.2512.65
1.22.715.225.2710.23
ThicknessLoadDistanceProjection
of y load
Projection
of x Load
1.12.216.226.2512.65
1.22.715.225.2710.23
ThicknessLoadDistanceProjection
of y load
Projection
of x Load
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16. Document Data
• Each document becomes a ‘term’ vector
– Each term is a component (attribute) of the vector
– The value of each component is the number of times the
corresponding term occurs in the document.
Document 1
season
timeout
lost
win
game
score
ball
play
coach
team
Document 2
Document 3
3 0 5 0 2 6 0 2 0 2
0
0
7 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0
1 0 0 1 2 2 0 3 0
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17. Transaction Data
• A special type of record data, where
– Each record (transaction) involves a set of items.
– For example, consider a grocery store. The set of products purchased
by a customer during one shopping trip constitute a transaction, while
the individual products that were purchased are the items.
TID Items
1 Bread, Coke, Milk
2 Beer, Bread
3 Beer, Coke, Diaper, Milk
4 Beer, Bread, Diaper, Milk
5 Coke, Diaper, Milk
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18. Graph Data
• Examples:
– Generic graph
– World-wide web
– Social or information networks
5
2
1
2
5
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19. Ordered Data
• Video data: sequence of images
• Temporal data: time-series
• Sequential Data: transaction sequences
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20. 2.2. Data Preprocessing
• Why preprocess the data?
• Data cleaning
• Data integration and transformation
• Data reduction
• Discretization and concept hierarchy generation
• Summary
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21. Why Data Preprocessing?
• Data in the real world is dirty
– incomplete: missing attribute values, lack of certain
attributes of interest, or containing only aggregate data
• e.g., occupation=“ ”
– noisy: containing errors or outliers
• e.g., Salary=“-10”
– inconsistent: containing discrepancies in codes or names
• e.g., Age=“42” Birthday=“03/07/1997”
• e.g., Was rating “1, 2, 3”, now rating “A, B, C”
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22. Why Is Data Preprocessing Important?
• To make data more suitable for data mining.
• To improve the data mining analysis with respect to time, cost
and quality.
• No quality data, no quality mining results!
– Quality decisions must be based on quality data
– Data mining example:
• a classification model for detecting people who are loan risks is built using poor
data
– Some credit-worthy candidates are denied loans
– More loans are given to individuals that default
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23. Major Tasks in Data Preprocessing
• Data cleaning
– Fill in missing values, smooth noisy data, identify or remove outliers, and resolve
inconsistencies
• Data integration
– Integration of multiple databases, data cubes, or files
• Data transformation
– Normalization and aggregation
• Data reduction
– Obtains reduced representation in volume but produces the same or similar analytical
results
• Data discretization
– Part of data reduction but with particular importance, especially for numerical data
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25. Data Preprocessing
• Why preprocess the data?
• Data cleaning
• Data integration and transformation
• Data reduction
• Discretization and concept hierarchy generation
• Summary
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26. Data Cleaning
• If data is dirty(incomplete, noisy, inconsistent) then:
– Users can not trust any results of data mining
– Can cause confusion for the data mining procedure, resulting in unreliable output.
• So, data cleaning is required.
• To clean data the following data cleaning tasks are performed:
– Fill in missing values
– Identify outliers and smooth out noisy data
– Correct inconsistent data
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27. Missing Data
• Data is not always available
– E.g., many tuples have no recorded value for several attributes, such as
customer income in sales data
• Missing data may be due to:
– equipment malfunction
– inconsistent with other recorded data and thus deleted
– data not entered due to misunderstanding
– certain data may not be considered important at the time of entry
• Missing data may need to be inferred.
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28. How to Handle Missing Data?
• Ignore the tuple:
– usually done when class label is missing
• Fill in the missing value manually:
– tedious + infeasible?
• Use a global constant to fill in the missing value:
– e.g., “unknown”
• Use the attribute mean to fill in the missing value
• Use the most probable value to fill in the missing value:
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29. Noisy Data
• Noise:
– random error or variance in a measured variable
• Noise (Incorrect attribute) values may due to
– faulty data collection instruments
– data entry problems
– data transmission problems
– technology limitation
– inconsistency in naming convention
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30. How to Handle Noisy Data?
• Binning method:
– first sort data and partition into bins
– then smooth by bin means, smooth by bin median, smooth by bin
boundaries, etc.
• Clustering
– detect and remove outliers
• Combined computer and human inspection
– detect doubtful values and check by human
• Regression
– smooth by fitting the data into regression functions
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31. Binning
• Three step process:
– Sort the data
– Make the bins by partitioning
– Smooth the data in each bins
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32. Contd…
• Partitioning techniques to make bins:
– Equal-width (distance) partitioning:
– Equal-depth (frequency) partitioning
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33. Contd…
– Equal-width (distance) partitioning:
• It divides the range into N intervals of equal size
• if A and B are the lowest and highest values of the attribute, the
width of intervals will be: W = (B-A)/N.
– Equal-depth (frequency) partitioning:
• It divides the range into N intervals, each containing approximately
same number of samples
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34. Example: Binning Methods for Data Smoothing
* Sorted data for price (in dollars): 4, 8, 9, 15, 21, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 34
* Partition into (equi-depth) bins:
- Bin 1: 4, 8, 9, 15
- Bin 2: 21, 21, 24, 25
- Bin 3: 26, 28, 29, 34
* Smoothing by bin means:
- Bin 1: 9, 9, 9, 9
- Bin 2: 23, 23, 23, 23
- Bin 3: 29, 29, 29, 29
* Smoothing by bin boundaries:
- Bin 1: 4, 4, 4, 15
- Bin 2: 21, 21, 25, 25
- Bin 3: 26, 26, 26, 34
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35. Data Preprocessing
• Why preprocess the data?
• Data cleaning
• Data integration and transformation
• Data reduction
• Discretization and concept hierarchy generation
• Summary
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36. Data Integration
• Data integration combines data from multiple sources into a
coherent store(e.g., DW).
• Careful integration can help reduce and avoid redundancies and
inconsistencies in the resulting data set.
• This can help improve the accuracy and speed of the subsequent
data mining process.
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37. Contd..
• But, Entity identification problem:
• for the same real world entity, attribute values from different sources
are different.
• For example: how can the data analyst or the computer be sure that
customer id in one database and cust_number in another refer to the
same attribute?
• Solution: The Meta data can be used to help the transformation of data
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38. Contd..
• Handling Redundant Data:
• Redundant data occur often when integration of multiple databases
– The same attribute may have different names in different
databases Careful integration of the data from multiple sources
may help reduce/avoid redundancies and inconsistencies and
improve mining speed and quality
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39. Data Transformation
• In this preprocessing step, the data are transformed or consolidated
so that the resulting mining process may be more efficient, and the
patterns found may be easier to understand.
• Data Transformation Strategies:
– Smoothing
– Attribute construction
– Aggregation
– Normalization
– Discretization
– Concept hierarchy generation
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40. Contd..
• Smoothing, which works to remove noise from the data.
Techniques include binning, regression, and clustering.
• Attribute construction (or feature construction), where new
attributes are constructed and added from the given set of attributes
to help the mining process.
• Aggregation, where summary or aggregation operations are
applied to the data. For example, the daily sales data may be
aggregated so as to compute monthly and annual total amounts.
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41. Contd..
• Normalization, where the attribute data are scaled so as to fall
within a smaller range, such as: -1.0 to 1.0, or 0.0 to 1.0.
• Discretization, where the raw values of a numeric attribute (e.g.,
age) are replaced by interval labels (e.g., 0–10, 11–20, etc.) or
conceptual labels (e.g., youth, adult, senior).
• Concept hierarchy generation, where attributes such as street can
be generalized to higher-level concepts, like city or country.
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42. Data Preprocessing
• Why preprocess the data?
• Data cleaning
• Data integration and transformation
• Data reduction
• Discretization and concept hierarchy generation
• Summary
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43. Data Reduction
• Warehouse may store terabytes of data:
– Complex data mining may take a very long time to run on the
complete data set.
• Data reduction
– Obtains a reduced representation of the data set that is much
smaller in volume but yet produces the same (or almost the
same) analytical results.
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44. Data Reduction Strategies
• Data reduction strategies
– Data cube aggregation
– Dimensionality reduction
– Histograms
– clustering
– sampling
– Discretization and concept hierarchy generation
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45. Contd..
• Data Cube Aggregation:
– Data for sales per quarter, for the years 2008 to 2010.
– interested in the annual sales (total per year), rather than the total per
quarter.
– Thus, the data can be aggregated so that the resulting data summarize the
total sales per year instead of per quarter.
– The resulting data set is smaller in volume, without loss of information
necessary for the analysis task.
– This aggregation is illustrated in Figure below.
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46. Contd..
– Dimensionality Reduction:
Feature selection (i.e., attribute subset selection):
• Select a minimum set of features such that the probability
distribution of different classes given the values for those
features is as close as possible to the original distribution
given the values of all features
• reduce # of patterns in the patterns, easier to understand
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47. Histograms
• A popular data reduction technique
• Divide data into buckets and store average (sum) for each bucket
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
10000 30000 50000 70000 90000
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48. Clustering
• Partition data set into clusters, and one can store cluster
representation only.
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49. Sampling
• Sampling is the main technique employed for data reduction.
– It is often used for both the preliminary investigation of the data and the
final data analysis.
• Statisticians often sample because obtaining the entire set of data of
interest is too expensive or time consuming.
• Sampling is typically used in data mining because processing the
entire set of data of interest is too expensive or time consuming.
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50. Contd…
• The key principle for effective sampling is the
following:
– Using a sample will work almost as well as using the entire
data set, if the sample is representative
– A sample is representative if it has approximately the same
properties (of interest) as the original set of data
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51. Contd..
• Discretization
– reduce the number of values for a given continuous attribute by
dividing the range of the attribute into intervals.
– Interval labels can then be used to replace actual data values.
• Concept hierarchies
– reduce the data by collecting and replacing low level concepts
(such as numeric values for the attribute age) by higher level
concepts (such as young, middle-aged, or senior).
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52. Summary
• Data preparation is a big issue for both warehousing and
mining
• Data preparation includes
– Data cleaning and data integration
– Data reduction and feature selection
– Discretization
• A lot of methods have been developed but still an active area
of research
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53. Data Warehouse: A Multi-Tiered Architecture
Data
Warehouse
Extract
Transform
Load
Refresh
OLAP Engine
Analysis
Query
Reports
Data mining
Monitor
&
Integrator
Metadata
Data Sources Front-End Tools
Serve
Data Marts
Operational
DBs
Other
sources
Data Storage
OLAP Server
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54. OLAP
• OLAP is a software technology concerned with fast analysis of enterprise
information.
• Often OLAP systems are data warehouse front end software tools to make
aggregate data available efficiently to an enterprise’s decision makers
(analysts, managers and executives).
• Major OLAP applications are trend analysis over a number of time periods,
slicing, dicing , drill-down and roll-up to look at the data at different levels
of detail and pivoting or rotating to obtain a new multidimensional view.
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55. Characteristics of OLAP Systems
• Comparison between OLTP and OLAP systems:
– This comparison highlights some of the characteristics of OLAP
systems.
– The difference between the two types of systems are as follows:
– Users:
• OLTP systems are designed for office workers while the OLAP
systems are designed for decision makers. Therefore , while an
OLTP system may be accessed by hundreds or even thousands of
users in a large enterprise, an OLAP system is likely to be accessed
only by a selected group of managers and may be used by dozens
of users.
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56. Contd..
• Functions:
– OLTP systems are mission-critical (vital to the functioning of an
organization.). These systems carry out simple repetitive operations.
– OLAP systems on the other hand are management critical to support an
enterprise's decision support functions using analytical investigations.
These are ad-hoc and often much more complex operations.
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57. Contd..
• Nature:
– Nature of queries in OLTP system is simple
– Nature of queries in OLAP system is complex
– Nature of usage of OLTP system is repetitive
– Nature of usage of OLAP system is mostly ad hoc
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58. Contd..
• Design:
– OLTP systems are designed to be application-oriented while OLAP
systems are designed to be subject-oriented.
– OLTP systems view the enterprise data as a collection of tables while
OLAP systems view enterprise information as multidimensional.
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59. Contd..
• Data:
– OLTP systems normally deal only with the current status of
information.
– On the other hand, OLAP systems require historical data over several
years since trend are often important in decision making.
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60. Contd..
• Kinds of use:
– OLTP systems are used for read and write operations while OLAP
systems normally do not update the data but refresh the data.
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61. Contd..
• Other features that distinguish between OLTP and OLAP system are summarized in
the following table:
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62. FASMI Characteristics of OLAP systems
• The FASMI characteristics of OLAP systems, the name
derived from the first letters of the characteristics, are:
– Fast
– Analytic
– Shared
– Multidimensional
– Information
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63. Contd..
• Fast:
– OLAP queries should be answered very quickly, perhaps
within seconds.
– To achieve such performance:
• the data structure must be efficient and the hardware must be powerful.
• Full pre-computation of aggregates
• Pre-compute the most commonly queried aggregates.
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64. Contd..
• Analytic:
– An OLAP system must provide rich analytic functionality and it is
expected that most OLAP queries can be answered without any
programming.
– The system should be able to cope with any relevant queries for the
application and the user.
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65. Contd..
• Shared:
– An OLAP system is a shared resource although it is unlikely to be
shared by hundreds of users.
– An OLAP system is likely to be accessed only by a selected group of
managers and may be use by mere dozens of users.
– Being a shared system, an OLAP system should provide adequate
security for confidentiality as well as integrity.
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66. Contd..
• Multidimensional:
– This is the basic requirement.
– Whatever OLAP software is being used, it must provide a
multidimensional conceptual view of the data.
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67. Contd..
• Information:
– OLAP systems usually obtain information from a data warehouse.
– The system should be able to handle a large amount of input data.
– The capacity of an OLAP system to handle information and its
integration with the data warehouse may be critical.
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68. Codd’s OLAP characteristics
• The most important characteristics of OLAP systems provided by the
Codd are as follows:
– Multidimensional conceptual view
– Accessibility(OLAP as a mediator)
– Batch extraction vs interpretive
– Multi-user support
– Storing OLAP result
– Extraction of missing values
– Treatment of missing values
– Uniform reporting performance
– Generic dimensionality
– Unlimited dimensions and aggregation levels
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69. Contd..
• Multidimensional conceptual view:
– By requiring a multidimensional view, it is possible to carry out
operations like slice and dice.
• Accessibility (OLAP as a mediator):
– The OLAP software should be sitting between data sources(e..g., a data
warehouse) and an OLAP front- end.
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70. Contd..
• Batch extraction versus interpretive:
– An OLAP system should provide multidimensional data staging plus
partial pre-calculation of aggregates in large multidimensional
databases.
• Multi- user support:
– Since the OLAP system is shared, the OLAP software should provide
many normal database operations including retrieval, update,
concurrency control, integrity and security.
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71. Contd..
• Storing OLAP results:
– OLAP results data should be kept separate from source data.
• Extraction of missing values:
– The OLAP system should distinguish missing values form zero values.
– A large data cube may have a large number of zeros as well as some
missing values.
– If a distinction is not made between zero values and missing values, the
aggregates are likely to be computed incorrectly.
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72. Contd..
• Treatment of missing values:
– An OLAP system should ignore all missing values regardless of their
source.
– Correct aggregate values will be computed once the missing values are
ignored.
• Uniform reporting performance:
– Increasing the number of dimensions or database size should not
significantly degrade the reporting performance of the OLAP system.
– This is good objective although it may be difficult to achieve in
practice.
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73. Contd..
• Generic dimensionality:
– An OLAP system should treat each dimension as equivalent in both its
structure and operational capabilities. Additional operational
capabilities may be granted to be selected dimensions but such
additional functions should be grantable to be any dimension
• Unlimited dimensions and aggregation levels:
– An OLAP system should allow unlimited dimensions and aggregations
and aggregation levels.
– but In practice, this is undesirable.
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74. Example OLAPApplications
• Understanding and improving sales:
– OLAP can assist in finding the most popular products and the most
popular channels for selling the products.
• E,g., Findwhich itemsare frequentlysoldover the summerbut not overwinter?
– OLAP can assist in finding most profitable customers.
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75. Contd..
• Understanding and reducing costs of doing business:
– Improving sales is one aspect of improving business, the other aspect is
to analyze costs and to control them as much as possible without
affecting sales.
– OLAP can assist in analyzing the costs associated with sales.
– In some cases, it may also be possible to identify expenditures that
produce a high return on investment.
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76. Contd..
• CreditCard Companies:
• Given a new applicant, does (s)hea credit-worthy?
• Need to check other similarapplicants (age, gender, income, etc…) and
observehow theyperform,then do prediction for newapplicant
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77. Multi-dimensional views and Data cubes
• Data warehouses and OLAP tools are based on a
multidimensional data model. This model views data in the
form of a data cube.
• What is a data cube?
– A data cube allows data to be modeled and viewed
in multiple dimensions. It is defined by dimensions
and facts.
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78. Contd..
• Dimensions:
– dimensions are the perspectives or entities with respect to which an
organization wants to keep records.
– For example, AllElectronics may create a sales data warehouse in
order to keep records of the store’s sales with respect to the dimensions
time, item, branch, and location.
– These dimensions allow the store to keep track of things like monthly
sales of items and the branches and locations at which the items were
sold.
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79. Contd..
• Facts:
– Facts are numeric measures.
• i.e., quantities by which we want to analyze relationships between
dimensions.
– Examples of facts for a sales data warehouse include dollars sold (sales
amount in dollars), units sold (number of units sold), and amount
budgeted.
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80. Contd..
• usually cubes are 3-D geometric structures, but in data
warehousing the data cube is n-dimensional.
• a simple 2-D data cube: a table or spreadsheet
• E.g.,
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81. Contd..
• 3-D data cube: a set of similarly structured 2-D tables stacked on top of one
another.
• E.g.,
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82. Contd..
• The 3-D data in the table are represented as a series of 2-D tables called 3-D data cube,
as in Figure below.
• Fig: A 3-D data cube representation of the data in Table previous slide, according to
time, item, and location.
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83. Contd..
• 4-D cubes: a 4-D cube is a series of 3-D cubes, as shown in Figure below:
• in this way, we may display any n-dimensional data as a series of (n-1)-
Dimensional “cubes.”
• Note: The data cube is a metaphor for multidimensional data storage. The
actual physical storage of such data may differ from its logical representation.
data cubes are n-dimensional and do not confine data to 3-D.
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84. Data Cube implementation
• Efficient data cube computation:
– No Materialization
– Full Materialization
– Partial Materialization
• Access methods: How OLAP data can be indexed(Bit map and join indices)
• Query processing technique
• OLAP server types
– ROLAP
– MOLAP
– HOLAP
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85. Computation of Data Cubes
• Data warehouses contain huge volumes of data.
• OLAP servers demand that decision support queries to answered in the
order of seconds.
• It is crucial for data warehouse systems to support highly efficient cube
computation techniques, access methods and query processing
techniques.
86. Efficient Computation of Data Cubes
• Cuboids:
– Data at different degree of summarization/ aggregations is often
referred to as a cuboid.
– Given a set of dimensions, we can generate a cuboid for each of the
possible subsets of the given dimensions.
– The result would form a lattice of cuboids, each showing the data at a
different level of summarization(or group-by/aggregation).
– The lattice of cuboids is then referred to as a data cube.
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87. Contd..
• Example:
– Suppose that you would like to create a data cube for ALLElectronics
sales that contains : city, item, year, as the dimensions for the data cube
and sales_in_dollars as the measure.
– The possible group-by’s are the following:
• {(city, item, year), (city, item), (city, year), (item, year), (city), (item), (year), ( )},
• where ( ) means that the group-by is empty (i.e., the dimensions are not grouped).
– These group-by’s form a lattice of cuboids for the data cube, as shown
in Figure below.
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89. Contd..
• You would like to be able to analyze the data, with queries
such as following:
• “Compute the sum of sales, grouping by city and item.”
• “Compute the sum of sales, grouping by city.”
• “Compute the sum of sales, grouping by item.”
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90. Contd..
• Special types of Cuboids:
– Base cuboid: The base cuboid contains all three dimensions,
city, item, and year. It can return the total sales for any
combination of the three dimensions. The base cuboid is the
least generalized (most specific) of the cuboids.
– Apex cuboid: The apex cuboid, or 0-D cuboid, refers to the
case where the group-by is empty. It contains the total sum of
all sales. The apex cuboid is the most generalized (least
specific) of the cuboids, and is often denoted as all.
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91. • OLAP may need to access different cuboids for different queries.
• a good idea :
• compute all or at least some of the cuboids in a data cube in advance.
• Pre-computation leads to fast response time and
• avoids some redundant computation.
• But, required storage space may explode (due to pre-computation of all
cuboid, large number of dimensions and large number of concept
hierarchies of dimensins)
• This problem is referred to as the curse of dimensionality
Curse of Dimensionality
92. There are three choices for data cube materialization(computation of
cuboids) given a base cuboid:
1. No Materialization
2. Full Materialization
3. Partial Materialization
Data cube Materialization
93. •No Materialization
Do not pre-compute any of the “non-base” cuboid.
This leads to computing expensive multidimensional aggregates on the fly,
which can be extremely slow.
Contd..
94. •Full Materialization
•Pre-compute all of the cuboids.
•The resulting lattice of computed cuboids is referred to as the full cube.
•This choice typically requires huge amounts of memory space in order to
store all of the pre-computed cuboids.
Contd..
95. •Partial Materialization
Selectively compute a proper subset of the whole set of possible cuboids.
It represents an interesting trade-off between storage space and response
time.
The partial materialization of cuboids or sub-cubes should consider three
factors:
Identify the subset of cuboids or sub-cubes to materialize
Exploit the materialized cuboids or sub-cubes during query
processing
Efficiently update the materialized cuboid or sub-cubes during load
and refresh.
Contd..
96. Indexing OLAP DATA
• To facilitate efficient data accessing to further speed up query
processing.
• Two most commonly used methods
• The Bitmap indexing method and
• Join indexing method
97. • Bitmap Indexing:
• In the bitmap index for a given attribute, there is a distinct bit vector, Bv,
for each value v in the domain of the attribute.
• If the attribute has the value v for a given row in the data table, then the bit
representing that value is set to 1 in the corresponding row of the bitmap
index. All other bits for that row are set to 0.
• Bitmap indexing reduces join, aggregation, and comparison operations to
bit arithmetic.
Contd..
98. Figure below shows a base (data) table containing the dimensions item and city,
and its mapping to bitmap index tables for each of the dimensions.
Contd..
99. • Join indexing:
• The join indexing method gained popularity from its use in
relational database query processing.
• Join indexing registers the joinable rows of two relations from a
relational database.
• Hence, the join index records can identify joinable tuples
without performing costly join operations.
Contd..
100. Example: join index relationship between the sales fact table and the location and
item dimension tables is shown in figure below
Contd..
Here, the “Main Street” value in the location dimension table joins with tuples T57,
T238, and T884 of the sales fact table.
Similarly, the “Sony-TV” value in the item dimension table joins with tuples T57 and
T459 of the sales fact table.
102. •The purpose of materializing cuboids and constructing OLAP
index structures is to speed up query processing in data cubes.
Given materialized views, query processing should proceed as
follows:
1. Determine which operations should be performed on the available
cuboids.
2. Determine to which materialized cuboid(s) the relevant operations
should be applied.
Efficient Processing of OLAP Queries
103. Types of OLAP Servers
• OLAP servers present business users with multidimensional data from data
warehouses, without concerns regarding how or where the data are stored.
• However, the physical architecture and implementation of OLAP servers
must consider data storage issues.
• Implementations of a warehouse server for OLAP processing include the
following:
Relational OLAP (ROLAP)
Multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP)
Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP)
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104. Contd..
• Relational OLAP (ROLAP) Server:
– These are the intermediate servers that stand in between a relational back-
end server and client front-end tools.
– They use a relational or extended-relational DBMS to store and manage
warehouse data, and OLAP middleware to support missing pieces.
– ROLAP servers include optimization for each DBMS back end,
implementation of aggregation navigation logic, and additional tools and
services.
– ROLAP technology tends to have greater scalability than MOLAP
technology.
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105. Contd..
• Multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP) Server:
– These servers supports multidimensional views of data through array-based
multidimensional storage engines.
– They map multidimensional views directly to data cube array structures.
– The advantages of using a data cube is that it allows fast indexing to pre-
computed summarized data.
– In multidimensional data stores, the storage utilization may be low if the
data set is sparse.
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106. Contd..
• Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP) Servers:
• The hybrid OLAP approach combines ROLAP and MOLAP technology.
• Benefiting from the greater scalability of ROLAP and the faster computation of
MOLAP.
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107. Contd..
• MOLAP vs. ROLAP:
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MOLAP ROLAP
Information retrieval is fast. Information retrieval is comparatively
slow.
Uses sparse array to store data-sets. Uses relational table.
MOLAP is best suited for
inexperienced users, since it is very
easy to use.
ROLAP is best suited for experienced
users.
Maintains a separate database for
data cubes.
It may not require space other than
available in the Data warehouse.
DBMS facility is weak. DBMS facility is strong.
108. Data Cube operations
• A number of operations may be applied to data cubes for
OLAP.
• Data cube operations are also known as OLAP operations. The
common ones are:
– Slice
– dice
– Roll-up(Drill-up)
– Drill-down(Roll-down)
– Pivot(Rotate)
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109. Contd..
• The cube contains the dimensions location, time,
and item, where location is aggregated with
respect to city values, time is aggregated with
respect to quarters, and item is aggregated with
respect to item types.
– The measure displayed is dollars sold (in
thousands).
– The data examined are for the cities Chicago,
New York, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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A data cube for AllElectronics sales to illustrate data cube operation:
110. Contd..
• Slice:
– Slice operation performs a
selection on one dimension
of the given cube, thus
creates subset a cube.
– Below example depicts how
slice operation works-
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111. Contd..
• Dice:
– Dice operation performs a
selection on two or more
dimension from a given
cube and creates a sub-
cube.
– Below example depicts
how Dice operation works-
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112. Contd..• Roll-up(Drill-up):
– The roll-up operation
performs aggregation
on a data cube, either :
• by climbing up a concept
hierarchy for a dimension
or
• by dimension reduction.
– Below example depicts
how roll-up operation
works-
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113. Contd..• Drill-down(Roll-down):
– Drill-down is the reverse operation of
roll-up. It is performed by either of
the following ways:
• By stepping down a concept hierarchy for
a dimension
• By introducing a new dimension.
– It allows users to navigate among
different levels of data i.e. most
summarized (up) to most details
(down).
– Below example depicts how Drill-
down operation works
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114. Contd..
• Pivot:
– Pivot also known as
rotation changes the
dimensional rotation of the
cube, i.e. rotates the axes to
view the data from
different perspectives. The
below cubes shows 2D
representation of Pivot
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115. Guidelines for OLAP implementation
• A number of Guidelines for successful implementation of
OLAP are as follows:
– Vision
– Senior management support
– Selecting an OLAP tool
– Corporate strategy
– Focus on the users
– Joint management
– Review and adapt
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116. Contd..
• Vision:
– The OLAP team must, in consultation with the users, develop a clear
vision for the OLAP system. This vision including the business
objectives should be clearly defined, understood, and shared by the
stakeholders.
• Senior management support:
– The OLAP project should fully supported by the senior managers,
since a data warehouse may have been developed already this should
not be difficult.
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117. Contd..
• Selecting an OLAP tool:
– The OLAP team should familiarize themselves with the ROLP and
MOLAP tools available in the market. Since tools are quite different,
careful planning may be required in selecting a tool that is appropriate
for the enterprise. In some situations, a combination of ROLAP and
MOLAP may be most effective.
• Corporate strategy:
– The OLAP strategy should fit with the enterprise strategy and business
objectives. A good fit will result in the OLAP tools being used more
widely.
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118. Contd..
• Focus on users:
– The OLAP project should be focused on users. Users should, in
consultation with the technical professionals, decide what tasks will be
done first and what will be done later. Attempts should be made to
provide each user with a tool suitable for that person’s skill level and
information needs. A good GUI user interface should be provided to
non-technical users. The project can only be successful whit the full
support of the users.
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119. Contd..
• Joint Management:
– The OLAP project must be managed by both the IT and business
professional. Many other people should be involved in supplying ideas.
An appropriate committee structure may be necessary to channel these
ideas
• Review and adapt:
– Organizations evolve and so must be OLAP system. Regular reviews of
the project may be required to ensure that the project is meeting the
current needs of the enterprise.
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120. Data Mining vs. OLAP
• OLAP - Online Analytical Processing
– Provides you with a very good view of what is
happening, but can not predict what will happen in
the future or why it is happening.
• Data Mining is a combination of discovering techniques +
prediction techniques
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121. Home Work
• What are dimension, members, measure and fact table?
• List the major difference between OLTP systems and OLAP systems.
• What is OLAP and its purpose? List the characteristics of OLAP systems.
• What is data cube and purpose of data cube? Use an example to illustrate
the use of data cube.
• What are ROLAP and MOLAP ?describe the two approaches and list their
advantages and disadvantages.
• Describe the operations(OLAP/ Cube operations) roll-up, drill-down, and
slice and dice.
• List the implementation guidelines for implementing OLAP.
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