This document provides details about a course on data mining and data warehousing. The course objectives are to understand the foundational principles and techniques of data mining and data warehousing. The course description covers topics like data preprocessing, classification, association analysis, cluster analysis, and data warehouses. The course is divided into 10 units that cover concepts and algorithms for data mining techniques. Practical exercises are included to apply techniques to real-world data problems.
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP (online analytical processing) technology. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It describes how data warehouses use a multi-dimensional data model with facts and dimensions to organize historical data from multiple sources for analysis. Common data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas are also summarized.
Data warehousing combines data from multiple sources into a single database to provide businesses with analytics results from data mining, OLAP, scorecarding and reporting. It extracts, transforms and loads data from operational data stores and data marts into a data warehouse and staging area to integrate and store large amounts of corporate data. Data mining analyzes large databases to extract previously unknown and potentially useful patterns and relationships to improve business processes.
This document provides an overview of data mining, data warehousing, and decision support systems. It defines data mining as extracting hidden predictive patterns from large databases and data warehousing as integrating data from multiple sources into a central repository for reporting and analysis. Common data warehousing techniques include data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP), and online transaction processing (OLTP). The document also discusses the benefits of data warehousing such as enhanced business intelligence and historical data analysis, as well challenges around meeting user expectations and optimizing systems. Finally, it describes decision support systems and executive information systems as tools that combine data and models to support business decision making.
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Data mining , Knowledge Discovery Process, ClassificationDr. Abdul Ahad Abro
The document provides an overview of data mining techniques and processes. It discusses data mining as the process of extracting knowledge from large amounts of data. It describes common data mining tasks like classification, regression, clustering, and association rule learning. It also outlines popular data mining processes like CRISP-DM and SEMMA that involve steps of business understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment. Decision trees are presented as a popular classification technique that uses a tree structure to split data into nodes and leaves to classify examples.
Shivani Soni presented on data mining. Data mining involves using computational methods to discover patterns in large datasets, combining techniques from machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and database systems. It is used to extract useful information from data and transform it into an understandable structure. Data mining has various applications, including in sales/marketing, banking/finance, healthcare/insurance, transportation, medicine, education, manufacturing, and research analysis. It enables businesses to understand customer purchasing patterns and maximize profits. Examples of its use include fraud detection, credit risk analysis, stock trading, customer loyalty analysis, distribution scheduling, claims analysis, risk profiling, detecting medical therapy patterns, education decision making, and aiding manufacturing process design and research.
This document provides an overview of the 3-tier data warehouse architecture. It discusses the three tiers: the bottom tier contains the data warehouse server which fetches relevant data from various data sources and loads it into the data warehouse using backend tools for extraction, cleaning, transformation and loading. The bottom tier also contains the data marts and metadata repository. The middle tier contains the OLAP server which presents multidimensional data to users from the data warehouse and data marts. The top tier contains the front-end tools like query, reporting and analysis tools that allow users to access and analyze the data.
The document discusses data warehouses and their advantages. It describes the different views of a data warehouse including the top-down view, data source view, data warehouse view, and business query view. It also discusses approaches to building a data warehouse, including top-down and bottom-up, and steps involved including planning, requirements, design, integration, and deployment. Finally, it discusses technologies used to populate and refresh data warehouses like extraction, cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh tools.
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP (online analytical processing) technology. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It describes how data warehouses use a multi-dimensional data model with facts and dimensions to organize historical data from multiple sources for analysis. Common data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas are also summarized.
Data warehousing combines data from multiple sources into a single database to provide businesses with analytics results from data mining, OLAP, scorecarding and reporting. It extracts, transforms and loads data from operational data stores and data marts into a data warehouse and staging area to integrate and store large amounts of corporate data. Data mining analyzes large databases to extract previously unknown and potentially useful patterns and relationships to improve business processes.
This document provides an overview of data mining, data warehousing, and decision support systems. It defines data mining as extracting hidden predictive patterns from large databases and data warehousing as integrating data from multiple sources into a central repository for reporting and analysis. Common data warehousing techniques include data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP), and online transaction processing (OLTP). The document also discusses the benefits of data warehousing such as enhanced business intelligence and historical data analysis, as well challenges around meeting user expectations and optimizing systems. Finally, it describes decision support systems and executive information systems as tools that combine data and models to support business decision making.
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Data mining , Knowledge Discovery Process, ClassificationDr. Abdul Ahad Abro
The document provides an overview of data mining techniques and processes. It discusses data mining as the process of extracting knowledge from large amounts of data. It describes common data mining tasks like classification, regression, clustering, and association rule learning. It also outlines popular data mining processes like CRISP-DM and SEMMA that involve steps of business understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment. Decision trees are presented as a popular classification technique that uses a tree structure to split data into nodes and leaves to classify examples.
Shivani Soni presented on data mining. Data mining involves using computational methods to discover patterns in large datasets, combining techniques from machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and database systems. It is used to extract useful information from data and transform it into an understandable structure. Data mining has various applications, including in sales/marketing, banking/finance, healthcare/insurance, transportation, medicine, education, manufacturing, and research analysis. It enables businesses to understand customer purchasing patterns and maximize profits. Examples of its use include fraud detection, credit risk analysis, stock trading, customer loyalty analysis, distribution scheduling, claims analysis, risk profiling, detecting medical therapy patterns, education decision making, and aiding manufacturing process design and research.
This document provides an overview of the 3-tier data warehouse architecture. It discusses the three tiers: the bottom tier contains the data warehouse server which fetches relevant data from various data sources and loads it into the data warehouse using backend tools for extraction, cleaning, transformation and loading. The bottom tier also contains the data marts and metadata repository. The middle tier contains the OLAP server which presents multidimensional data to users from the data warehouse and data marts. The top tier contains the front-end tools like query, reporting and analysis tools that allow users to access and analyze the data.
The document discusses data warehouses and their advantages. It describes the different views of a data warehouse including the top-down view, data source view, data warehouse view, and business query view. It also discusses approaches to building a data warehouse, including top-down and bottom-up, and steps involved including planning, requirements, design, integration, and deployment. Finally, it discusses technologies used to populate and refresh data warehouses like extraction, cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh tools.
1) The document discusses different types of micro-operations including arithmetic, logic, shift, and register transfer micro-operations.
2) It provides examples of common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, increment, and decrement. It also describes logic operations like AND, OR, XOR, and complement.
3) Shift micro-operations include logical shifts, circular shifts, and arithmetic shifts which affect the serial input differently.
This document provides an overview of different data models, including object-based models like the entity-relationship model and object-oriented model, and record-based models like the relational, network, and hierarchical models. It describes the key features of each model, such as how data and relationships are represented, and highlights some of their advantages and disadvantages. The presentation aims to guide students in understanding different approaches to database design and modeling.
KDD is the process of automatically extracting hidden patterns from large datasets. It involves data cleaning, reduction, exploration, modeling, and interpretation to discover useful knowledge. The goal is to gain a competitive advantage by providing improved services through understanding of the data.
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.
The document discusses two types of data marts: independent and dependent. Independent data marts focus on a single subject area but are not designed enterprise-wide, examples include manufacturing or finance. They are quicker and cheaper to build but can contain duplicate data and inconsistencies. Dependent data marts get their data from an enterprise data warehouse, offering benefits like improved performance, security, and key performance indicator tracking. The document also outlines the key steps in designing, building, populating, accessing, and managing a data mart project.
The document discusses various indexing techniques used to improve data access performance in databases, including ordered indices like B-trees and B+-trees, as well as hashing techniques. It covers the basic concepts, data structures, operations, advantages and disadvantages of each approach. B-trees and B+-trees store index entries in sorted order to support range queries efficiently, while hashing distributes entries uniformly across buckets using a hash function but does not support ranges.
Data Warehouse Physical Design,Physical Data Model, Tablespaces, Integrity Constraints, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) ,OLAP Server Architectures, MOLAP vs. ROLAP, Distributed Data Warehouse ,
System analysis and design involves analyzing business processes and requirements and designing logical systems models. Key activities include fact finding, modeling current and required systems, and producing requirements specifications and logical models. Data flow diagrams (DFDs) are a common modeling technique, depicting the flow of data through a system via processes, external entities, and data stores. DFDs are drawn at different levels of detail, with level 0 providing an overview and higher levels showing more granular decompositions of processes. Proper notation, numbering, labeling, and balancing are important for effective DFDs.
This document provides an overview of data warehousing. It defines a data warehouse as a central database that includes information from several different sources and keeps both current and historical data to support management decision making. The document describes key characteristics of a data warehouse including being subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and non-volatile. It also discusses common data warehouse architectures and applications.
The document is a chapter from a textbook on data mining written by Akannsha A. Totewar, a professor at YCCE in Nagpur, India. It provides an introduction to data mining, including definitions of data mining, the motivation and evolution of the field, common data mining tasks, and major issues in data mining such as methodology, performance, and privacy.
This document defines a data warehouse as a collection of corporate information derived from operational systems and external sources to support business decisions rather than operations. It discusses the purpose of data warehousing to realize the value of data and make better decisions. Key components like staging areas, data marts, and operational data stores are described. The document also outlines evolution of data warehouse architectures and best practices for implementation.
DATA WAREHOUSE IMPLEMENTATION BY SAIKIRAN PANJALASaikiran Panjala
This document discusses data warehouses, including what they are, how they are implemented, and how they can be further developed. It provides definitions of key concepts like data warehouses, data cubes, and OLAP. It also describes techniques for efficient data cube computation, indexing of OLAP data, and processing of OLAP queries. Finally, it discusses different approaches to data warehouse implementation and development of data cube technology.
A distributed database is a collection of logically interrelated databases distributed over a computer network. A distributed database management system (DDBMS) manages the distributed database and makes the distribution transparent to users. There are two main types of DDBMS - homogeneous and heterogeneous. Key characteristics of distributed databases include replication of fragments, shared logically related data across sites, and each site being controlled by a DBMS. Challenges include complex management, security, and increased storage requirements due to data replication.
Data Warehouse – Introduction, characteristics, architecture, scheme and modelling, Differences between operational database systems and data warehouse.
Data mining refers to extracting knowledge from large amounts of data and involves techniques from machine learning, statistics, and databases. A typical data mining system includes a database, data mining engine, pattern evaluation module, and graphical user interface. The knowledge discovery in data (KDD) process involves data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, mining, evaluation, and presentation to extract useful patterns from data. KDD is the overall process while data mining is one step, applying algorithms to extract patterns for analysis.
key note address delivered on 23rd March 2011 in the Workshop on Data Mining and Computational Biology in Bioinformatics, sponsored by DBT India and organised by Unit of Simulation and Informatics, IARI, New Delhi.
I do not claim any originality either to slides or their content and in fact aknowledge various web sources.
1) The document discusses different types of micro-operations including arithmetic, logic, shift, and register transfer micro-operations.
2) It provides examples of common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, increment, and decrement. It also describes logic operations like AND, OR, XOR, and complement.
3) Shift micro-operations include logical shifts, circular shifts, and arithmetic shifts which affect the serial input differently.
This document provides an overview of different data models, including object-based models like the entity-relationship model and object-oriented model, and record-based models like the relational, network, and hierarchical models. It describes the key features of each model, such as how data and relationships are represented, and highlights some of their advantages and disadvantages. The presentation aims to guide students in understanding different approaches to database design and modeling.
KDD is the process of automatically extracting hidden patterns from large datasets. It involves data cleaning, reduction, exploration, modeling, and interpretation to discover useful knowledge. The goal is to gain a competitive advantage by providing improved services through understanding of the data.
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.
The document discusses two types of data marts: independent and dependent. Independent data marts focus on a single subject area but are not designed enterprise-wide, examples include manufacturing or finance. They are quicker and cheaper to build but can contain duplicate data and inconsistencies. Dependent data marts get their data from an enterprise data warehouse, offering benefits like improved performance, security, and key performance indicator tracking. The document also outlines the key steps in designing, building, populating, accessing, and managing a data mart project.
The document discusses various indexing techniques used to improve data access performance in databases, including ordered indices like B-trees and B+-trees, as well as hashing techniques. It covers the basic concepts, data structures, operations, advantages and disadvantages of each approach. B-trees and B+-trees store index entries in sorted order to support range queries efficiently, while hashing distributes entries uniformly across buckets using a hash function but does not support ranges.
Data Warehouse Physical Design,Physical Data Model, Tablespaces, Integrity Constraints, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) ,OLAP Server Architectures, MOLAP vs. ROLAP, Distributed Data Warehouse ,
System analysis and design involves analyzing business processes and requirements and designing logical systems models. Key activities include fact finding, modeling current and required systems, and producing requirements specifications and logical models. Data flow diagrams (DFDs) are a common modeling technique, depicting the flow of data through a system via processes, external entities, and data stores. DFDs are drawn at different levels of detail, with level 0 providing an overview and higher levels showing more granular decompositions of processes. Proper notation, numbering, labeling, and balancing are important for effective DFDs.
This document provides an overview of data warehousing. It defines a data warehouse as a central database that includes information from several different sources and keeps both current and historical data to support management decision making. The document describes key characteristics of a data warehouse including being subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and non-volatile. It also discusses common data warehouse architectures and applications.
The document is a chapter from a textbook on data mining written by Akannsha A. Totewar, a professor at YCCE in Nagpur, India. It provides an introduction to data mining, including definitions of data mining, the motivation and evolution of the field, common data mining tasks, and major issues in data mining such as methodology, performance, and privacy.
This document defines a data warehouse as a collection of corporate information derived from operational systems and external sources to support business decisions rather than operations. It discusses the purpose of data warehousing to realize the value of data and make better decisions. Key components like staging areas, data marts, and operational data stores are described. The document also outlines evolution of data warehouse architectures and best practices for implementation.
DATA WAREHOUSE IMPLEMENTATION BY SAIKIRAN PANJALASaikiran Panjala
This document discusses data warehouses, including what they are, how they are implemented, and how they can be further developed. It provides definitions of key concepts like data warehouses, data cubes, and OLAP. It also describes techniques for efficient data cube computation, indexing of OLAP data, and processing of OLAP queries. Finally, it discusses different approaches to data warehouse implementation and development of data cube technology.
A distributed database is a collection of logically interrelated databases distributed over a computer network. A distributed database management system (DDBMS) manages the distributed database and makes the distribution transparent to users. There are two main types of DDBMS - homogeneous and heterogeneous. Key characteristics of distributed databases include replication of fragments, shared logically related data across sites, and each site being controlled by a DBMS. Challenges include complex management, security, and increased storage requirements due to data replication.
Data Warehouse – Introduction, characteristics, architecture, scheme and modelling, Differences between operational database systems and data warehouse.
Data mining refers to extracting knowledge from large amounts of data and involves techniques from machine learning, statistics, and databases. A typical data mining system includes a database, data mining engine, pattern evaluation module, and graphical user interface. The knowledge discovery in data (KDD) process involves data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, mining, evaluation, and presentation to extract useful patterns from data. KDD is the overall process while data mining is one step, applying algorithms to extract patterns for analysis.
key note address delivered on 23rd March 2011 in the Workshop on Data Mining and Computational Biology in Bioinformatics, sponsored by DBT India and organised by Unit of Simulation and Informatics, IARI, New Delhi.
I do not claim any originality either to slides or their content and in fact aknowledge various web sources.
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.
This document outlines a presentation on web mining. It begins with an introduction comparing data mining and web mining, noting that web mining extracts information from the world wide web. It then discusses the reasons for and types of web mining, including web content, structure, and usage mining. The document also covers the architecture and applications of web mining, challenges, and provides recommendations.
The document provides an overview of big data analytics. It defines big data as high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety information assets that require cost-effective and innovative forms of processing for insights and decision making. Big data is characterized by the 3Vs - volume, velocity, and variety. The emergence of big data is driven by the massive amount of data now being generated and stored, availability of open source tools, and commodity hardware. The course will cover Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, streaming analytics, visualization, linked data analysis, and big data systems and AI solutions.
The document discusses digital curation and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). It defines digital curation as the process of maintaining and preserving digital assets for current and future use. The DCC supports digital curation activities through services, tools and the Digital Curation Lifecycle Model, which outlines key stages from data creation to long-term preservation and access. The DCC aims to promote sustainable digital research and reduce risks to digital materials over time.
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This document provides an introduction to data mining concepts and techniques. It discusses why data mining is necessary due to the explosive growth of data from various sources. Data mining involves the automated analysis of massive datasets to discover hidden patterns and knowledge. It is part of the broader knowledge discovery process that includes data cleaning, integration, selection, mining, and pattern evaluation. Data mining draws from multiple disciplines including database technology, statistics, machine learning, and pattern recognition to extract useful insights from large, complex datasets.
This document outlines the learning objectives and resources for a course on data mining and analytics. The course aims to:
1) Familiarize students with key concepts in data mining like association rule mining and classification algorithms.
2) Teach students to apply techniques like association rule mining, classification, cluster analysis, and outlier analysis.
3) Help students understand the importance of applying data mining concepts across different domains.
The primary textbook listed is "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber. Topics that will be covered include introduction to data mining, preprocessing, association rules, classification algorithms, cluster analysis, and applications.
This document contains an acknowledgement section thanking the project guide, Mr. Jarnail Singh, for his guidance. It then provides an executive summary on data mining, noting that data mining involves extracting patterns and useful information from large quantities of data, and some common data mining techniques include classification, association, and sequencing. It also provides an overview of the typical steps in the knowledge discovery process, including data integration, transformation, mining, evaluation, and presentation.
The document discusses data mining and provides information on its history, process, types, purpose and uses. It notes that data mining evolved from early methods of identifying patterns in data from the 1700s and 1800s. The key steps of the data mining process are described as data cleaning, integration, transformation and final representation. Types of data mining include flat files, relational databases, data warehouses and transactional databases. Data mining is used to extract useful information and insights from large amounts of data to increase revenues, reduce costs and improve customer relationships.
This document provides information about Dr. Sunil Bhutada, including his educational background and professional experience. It then outlines the syllabus for a course on data warehousing and data mining, including an introduction to key concepts and textbooks. Finally, it shares slides on additional topics related to data warehousing, data mining, and business intelligence.
Data mining involves extracting hidden patterns from large databases. It helps companies analyze important information in their data. Some applications of data mining include financial data analysis, retail industry analysis, telecommunications analysis, biological data analysis, scientific applications, and intrusion detection. Data mining uses techniques like classification, clustering, and prediction.
This document discusses Linked Open Data and how to publish open government data. It explains that publishing data in open, machine-readable formats and linking it to other external data sources increases its value. It provides examples of published open government data and outlines best practices for making data open through licensing, standard formats like CSV and XML, using URIs as identifiers, and linking to related external data. The key benefits outlined are empowering others to build upon the data and improving transparency, competition and innovation.
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence is one of the hottest skills today, and is the cornerstone for reporting, data science, and analytics. This course teaches the fundamentals with examples plus a project to fully illustrate the concepts.
The document discusses a chapter from the textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber. It provides an overview of data mining concepts such as what data mining is, why it is useful, common applications, and the typical process. It also describes different data mining functionalities like concept description, association analysis, classification, prediction, and cluster analysis.
Data mining (lecture 1 & 2) conecpts and techniquesSaif Ullah
This document provides an overview of data mining concepts from Chapter 1 of the textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques". It discusses the motivation for data mining due to increasing data collection, defines data mining as the extraction of useful patterns from large datasets, and outlines some common applications like market analysis, risk management, and fraud detection. It also introduces the key steps in a typical data mining process including data selection, cleaning, mining, and evaluation.
This document provides an overview of artificial neural networks and their application in data mining techniques. It discusses neural networks as a tool that can be used for data mining, though some practitioners are wary of them due to their opaque nature. The document also outlines the data mining process and some common data mining techniques like classification, clustering, regression, and association rule mining. It notes that neural networks, as a predictive modeling technique, can be useful for problems like classification and prediction.
Data mining involves analyzing large amounts of data to discover hidden patterns and relationships. It includes techniques like classification, clustering, and association rule mining. Data mining turns raw data into useful information and knowledge that can be used in applications such as market analysis, fraud detection, and customer relationship management. It allows organizations to make better decisions based on insights from their data.
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2. Course Title: Data Mining and Data Warehousing (Elective)
• Course code: IT 308
• Credits: 3
• Lecture Hours: 48
• Course Objective
– The objective of the course is to make learner understand foundation
principles and techniques of data mining and data warehousing.
– Students will be able to select and use various data mining language and
tools very useful for adding business value of an organization.
• Course Description
– Introduction, Data Preprocessing- Data Integration and Transformation,
Classification, Association Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Information Privacy
and Data Mining, Advanced Applications, Search engines, Data
Warehouses, Capacity Planning.
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3. Course Details
• Unit 1: Introduction LH 2
– 1.1. Data Mining Origin
– 1.2. Data Mining & Data Warehousing basics
• Unit 2: Data Preprocessing LH 6
– 2.1. Data Types and Attributes
– 2.2. Data Pre-processing
– 2.3. OLAP
– 2.4 Characteristics of OLAP Systems
– 2.5 Multidimensional View and Data cube
– 2.6 Data Cube Implementation
– 2.7 Data Cube Operations (Roll-up, Roll Down, slice and dice and pivot)
– 2.8 Guidelines for OLAP Implementation
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4. Contd..
• Unit 3: Classification LH 7
– 3.1. Basics and Algorithms
– 3.2. Decision Tree Classifier
– 3.3. Rule Based Classifier
– 3.4. Nearest Neighbor Classifier
– 3.5. Bayesian Classifier
– 3.6. Artificial Neural Network Classifier
– 3.7. Issues : Over-fitting, Validation, Model Comparison
• Unit 4: Association Analysis LH 7
– 4.1. Basics and Algorithms
– 4.2. Frequent Item-set Pattern & Apriori Principle
– 4.3. FP-Growth, FP-Tree
– 4.4. Handling Categorical Attributes
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5. Contd..
• Unit 5: Cluster Analysis LH 7
– 5.1. Basics and Algorithms
– 5.2. K-means Clustering
– 5.3. Hierarchical Clustering
– 5.4. Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN)
Clustering
• Unit 6: Information Privacy and Data Mining LH 3
– 6.1 Basic principles to Protect Information Privacy
– 6.2 Uses and Misuses of Data Mining
– 6.3 Primary Aims of data Mining
– 6.4 Pitfalls of Data Mining
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6. Contd..
• Unit 7: Advanced Applications LH 3
– 7.1. Web-mining: Web content mining, web usage mining
– 7.2. Time-series data mining
• Unit 8: Search Engines LH 3
– 8.1 Characteristics of search engine
– 8.2 Search Engine functionality
– 8.3 Ranking of Web pages
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7. Contd..
• Unit 9: Data Warehousing LH 7
– 9.1 Operational Data sources
– 9.2 ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
– 9.3 Data Warehouse Processes, Managers and their functions
– 9.4 Data Warehouses and Data Warehouses Design
– 9.5 Guidelines for Data Warehouse Implementation
• Unit 10 Capacity Planning LH 3
– 10.1 Calculating storage requirement, CPU requirements
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8. Contd..
• Practical: Students should practice enough on real-world data intensive
problems
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9. Contd..
• References: Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, Introductionto Data
Mining, 2005, Addison- Wesley.
– Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 2nd Edition,
2006, Morgan Kaufmann.
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10. Contd..
– G.K. Gupta, Introduction to Data Mining with Case Studies, Prentice Hall of India
– IBM, An Introduction to Building the Data Warehouse, Prentice Hall of India
– IBM, Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Prentice Hall of
India
– Adriaans Pieter, D. Zantige, "Data Mining", Pearson Education Asia Pub. Ltd, 2002
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11. Unit 1 : Introduction to Data Mining and Data
Warehousing
What is Data?
– A representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a formal manner
suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by human
beings or by computers.
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12. Origin of Data mining
• The steady and amazing progress of computer hardware
technology in the past three decades has led to large supplies
of powerful and affordable computers, data collection
equipment, and storage media.
• This technology provides a great boost to the database and
information industry, and makes a huge number of databases
and information re-positories available.
• This availability of huge data repositories creates a Data
explosion problem (data rich knowledge poor situation).
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13. Contd..
• We are drowning in data, but starving for knowledge!
• So, Powerful and versatile tools are badly needed to automatically uncover
valuable information from tremendous amounts of data and to transform
such data into organized knowledge.
Necessity is the Mother of invention! -plato
• This necessity has led to the birth of data mining.
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14. What is Data Mining?
Extraction of interesting (non-trivial, implicit, previously unknown and potentially
useful) patterns or knowledge from huge amount of data.
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15. Contd...
• Data mining: a misnomer?
• Scenario: Remember that the mining of gold from the rocks or sand is
referred to as gold mining rather than rock or sand mining.
– Thus, data mining should have been more appropriately named as “knowledge
mining” which emphasis on mining knowledge from large amounts of data.
– But, which is unfortunately somewhat long so, named “data mining”
• The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract pattern
from a data set and transform it into an understandable
structure for further use.
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16. Contd..
• Alternative names for data mining:
– Knowledge discovery(mining) in databases (KDD)
– knowledge extraction
– data/pattern analysis
– data archeology
– data dredging
– information harvesting
– business intelligence, etc.
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17. Contd..
• The key properties of data mining are:
– Automatic discovery of patterns
• E.g., Market basket analysis.
– Prediction of likely outcomes
• E.g., weather forecasting
– Creation of actionable information
• E.g., Police investigation
– Focus on large datasets and databases
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18. Data mining is not
•Brute-force crunching of bulk data.
•“Blind” application of algorithms.
•Going to find non-existential relationships.
•Presenting data in different ways
•Queries to the database are not DM.
•A magic that will turn your data into gold.
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19. Contd..
• Data Mining: Confluence of Multiple Disciplines :
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Data Mining
Database
Technology Statistics
Machine
Learning
Pattern
Recognition
Algorithm
Other
Disciplines
Visualization
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20. Why Data Mining?—Potential Applications
• Data analysis and decision support
– Market analysis and management
• Market basket analysis, sale techniques, customer feedback on
items (Opinion Mining)
– Risk analysis and management
• Forecasting, decision support system
– Fraud detection and detection of unusual patterns (outliers)
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21. Why Data Mining?—Potential Applications
• Other Applications
– Text mining (news group, email, documents) and Web
mining
– Stream data mining (mining from continuous / rapid data
• Eg Telephone communication pattern, Web Searching, Sensor data
– Bioinformatics and bio-data analysis
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22. Data Mining: On What Kinds of Data?
• As a general technology, data mining can be applied to any kind of
data as long as the data are meaningful for a target application.
– Database-oriented data sets and applications
• Relational database, data warehouse, transactional database
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23. Contd..
• Advanced data sets and advanced applications
– Data streams and sensor data
– Time-series data
– graphs, social networks and multi-linked data
– Heterogeneous databases and legacy databases
– Spatial data and spatiotemporal data
– Multimedia database
– Text databases
– The World-Wide Web
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24. Knowledge Discovery (KDD) Process..
• Simply stated, data mining refers to extracting or “mining”
knowledge from large amounts of data stored in databases,
data warehouses, or other information repositories.
• Many people treat data mining as a synonym for another
popularly used term, Knowledge Discovery from Data, or
KDD.
• Alternatively, others view data mining as simply an essential
step in the process of knowledge discovery.
• Knowledge discovery consists of an iterative sequence of the
following steps:
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26. Contd..
• Data cleaning :
– It removes noise and inconsistent data
• Data integration:
– This combines data from multiple data sources
• Data selection:
– Data relevant to the analysis task are retrieved from the database
• Data transformation:
– Data are transformed or consolidated into forms appropriate for mining
by performing summary or aggregation operations.
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27. Contd..
• Data mining:
– an essential process where intelligent methods are applied in order to
extract data patterns
• Pattern evaluation:
– Identifies the truly interesting patterns representing knowledge based
on some interestingness measures.
• Knowledge presentation:
– Knowledge representation techniques are used to present the mined
knowledge to the user.
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28. Contd..
• According to this view, data mining is only one step in the knowledge
discovery process.
• However, in industry, in media, and in the database research milieu, the
term data mining is becoming more popular than the longer term of
knowledge discovery from data.
• Therefore, we choose to use the term data mining.
• Based on this view, the architecture of a typical data mining system is
described in the following slides
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29. Architecture of Data Mining System
• A typical data mining system may have the following major components.
Figure: Architecture of Data Mining System
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30. Contd..
• Database, Data Warehouse, World Wide Web, or Other Information
Repository:
– This is one or a set of databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, or
other kinds of information repositories.
– Data cleaning and data integration techniques may be performed on the
data.
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31. Contd..
• Database or Data Warehouse Server:
– The database or data warehouse server is responsible for
fetching the relevant data, based on the user’s data mining
request.
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32. Contd..
• Knowledge Base:
– This is the domain knowledge that is used to guide the search or
evaluate the interestingness of resulting patterns. It is simply stored in
the form of set of rules.
– Such knowledge can include concept hierarchies, used to organize
attributes or attribute values into different levels of abstraction.
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33. Contd..
• Data Mining Engine:
– This is essential to the data mining system and ideally consists of a set
of functional modules for tasks such as association and correlation
analysis, classification, prediction, cluster analysis, outlier analysis and
etc.
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34. Contd..
• Pattern Evaluation Module:
– This component typically employs interestingness measures and
interacts with the data mining modules so as to focus the search toward
interesting patterns.
– It may use interestingness thresholds to filter out discovered patterns.
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35. Contd..
• User interface:
– This module communicates between users and the data
mining system, allowing the user to interact with the
system by specifying a data mining query or task.
– In addition, this component allows the user to browse
database and data warehouse schemas or data structures,
evaluate mined patterns, and visualize the patterns in
different forms.
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36. What is a Data Warehouse?
• A warehouse in general terms is a historic repository of information
collected from multiple sources, stored under a unified schema, and that
usually resides at a single site.
• Data Warehouses are constructed via a process of
– DATA CLEANING,
– DATA INTEGRATION,
– DATA TRANSFORMATION,
– DATA LOADING, and
– PERIODIC DATA REFRESHING.
• A data warehouse stores historical data of an organization so that they can
analyze their performance over the past time (days, weeks, months or
years) and plan for the future.
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37. Contd……
• The popular definition of the data warehouse is given by WH
Inmon:
• “A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and
nonvolatile collection of data in support of management’s decision-
making process.”
• Data warehousing:
– The process of constructing and using data warehouses.
– Is the process of extracting & transferring operational data
into informational data & loading it into a central data store
(warehouse)
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38. Data Warehouse—Integrated
• Constructed by integrating multiple,
heterogeneous data sources
– relational databases, flat files, on-line
transaction records
• Data cleaning and data integration
techniques are applied.
– Ensure consistency in naming conventions,
encoding structures, attribute measures, etc.
among different data sources
• E.g., Hotel price: currency, tax, etc.
Sales
system
Payroll
system
Purchasing
system
Customer
data
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39. Data Warehouse—Subject-Oriented
• Organized around major subjects, such as
customer, product, sales.
• Focusing on the modeling and analysis of
data for decision makers, not on daily
operations or transaction processing.
• Provide a simple and concise view around
particular subject issues by excluding data
that are not useful in the decision support
process.
Sales
system
Payroll
system
Purchasing
system
Customer
data
Vendor
data
Employee
data
Operational data DW
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40. Data Warehouse—Time Variant
• The time horizon for the data warehouse is significantly
longer than that of operational systems.
– Operational database: current value data.
– Data warehouse data: provide information from a historical
perspective (e.g., past 5-10 years)
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41. Data Warehouse—Non-Volatile
• A physically separate store of data
transformed from the operational
environment.
• Operational update of data does not
occur in the data warehouse
environment.
– Does not require transaction processing,
recovery, and concurrency control
mechanisms
– Requires only two operations in data
accessing:
• initial loading of data and access of
data.
Sales
system
create
update
insert
delete Customer
data
load
access
DBMS DW
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42. Data Warehouse Usage
• Three kinds of data warehouse applications
– Information processing
• supports querying, basic statistical analysis, and reporting
using tables, charts and graphs.
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43. Contd..
• Analytical processing
• multidimensional analysis of data warehouse data
• supports basic OLAP operations(drill-down, roll-up, slice-dice, drilling,
pivoting, which allows the user to view the data at differing degree of
summarization.
• Data mining
• knowledge discovery from hidden patterns
• supports associations, constructing analytical models, performing
classification and prediction, and presenting the mining results using
visualization tools.
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45. 45
3 main phases
• Data acquisition:
– relevant data collection
– Recovering: transformation into the data warehouse model from
existing models
– Loading: cleaning and loading in the Data Warehouse.
• Storage
• Data extraction
– Tool examples: Query/report, SQL, multidimensional analysis (OLAP
tools), data mining
• Maintenance(Optional)
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46. THE USE OF A DATA WAREHOUSE
INVENTORY
DATABASE
PERSONNEL
DATABASE
NEWCASTLE
SALES DB
LONDON
SALES DB
GLASGOW
SALES DB
STEP 2: Question the Data Warehouse
DECISIONS
and ACTIONS!
STEP 3: Do something
with what you learn from
the Data Warehouse
STEP 1: Load the Data Warehouse
DATA
WAREHOUSE
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47. Benefits of Data Warehousing
• Queries do not impact Operational systems
• Provides quick response to queries for reporting
• Enables Subject Area Orientation
• Integrates data from multiple, diverse sources
• Enables multiple interpretations of same data by different users or groups
• Provides thorough analysis of data over a period of time
• Accuracy of Operational systems can be checked
• Provides analysis capabilities to decision makers
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48. • Increase customer profitability
• Cost effective decision making
• Manage customer and business partner relationships
• Manage risk, assets and liabilities
• Integrate inventory, operations and manufacturing
• Reduction in time to locate, access, and analyze
information (Link multiple locations and geographies)
• Identify developing trends and reduce time to market
• Strategic advantage over competitors
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49. • Potential high returns on investment
• Competitive advantage
• Increased productivity of corporate decision-makers
• Provide reliable, High performance access
• Consistent view of Data: Same query, same data. All users
should be warned if data load has not come in.
• Quality of data is a driver for business re-engineering.
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50. Applications of Data Mining
• Data mining is an interdisciplinary field with wide and diverse
applications
– There exist nontrivial gaps between data mining principles and
domain-specific applications
• Some application domains
– Financial data analysis
– Retail industry
– Telecommunication industry
– Biological data analysis
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51. Data Mining for Financial Data Analysis
• Financial data collected in banks and financial institutions are often relatively
complete, reliable, and of high quality
• Design and construction of data warehouses for multidimensional data analysis and
data mining
– View the debt and revenue changes by month, by region, by sector, and by other factors
– Access statistical information such as max, min, total, average, trend, etc.
• Loan payment prediction/consumer credit policy analysis
– feature selection and attribute relevance ranking
– Loan payment performance
– Consumer credit rating
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52. • Classification and clustering of customers for targeted
marketing
– multidimensional segmentation by nearest-neighbor,
classification, decision trees, etc. to identify customer groups or
associate a new customer to an appropriate customer group
• Detection of money laundering and other financial crimes
– integration of from multiple DBs (e.g., bank transactions,
federal/state crime history DBs)
– Tools: data visualization, linkage analysis, classification,
clustering tools, outlier analysis, and sequential pattern analysis
tools (find unusual access sequences)
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53. Data Mining for Retail Industry
• Retail industry: huge amounts of data on sales, customer shopping history,
etc.
• Applications of retail data mining
– Identify customer buying behaviors
– Discover customer shopping patterns and trends
– Improve the quality of customer service
– Achieve better customer retention and satisfaction
– Enhance goods consumption ratios
– Design more effective goods transportation and distribution policies
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54. • Example 1. Design and construction of data warehouses based on the
benefits of data mining
– Multidimensional analysis of sales, customers, products, time, and region
• Example 2. Analysis of the effectiveness of sales campaigns
• Example 3. Customer retention: Analysis of customer loyalty
– Use customer loyalty card information to register sequences of purchases of
particular customers
– Use sequential pattern mining to investigate changes in customer
consumption or loyalty
– Suggest adjustments on the pricing and variety of goods
• Example 4. Purchase recommendation and cross-reference of items
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55. Data Mining for Telecommunication Industry
• A rapidly expanding and highly competitive industry and a great demand
for data mining
– Understand the business involved
– Identify telecommunication patterns
– Catch fraudulent activities
– Make better use of resources
– Improve the quality of service
• Multidimensional analysis of telecommunication data
– Intrinsically multidimensional: calling-time, duration, location of caller,
location of callee, type of call, etc.
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56. • Fraudulent pattern analysis and the identification of unusual patterns
– Identify potentially fraudulent users and their typical usage
patterns
– Detect attempts to gain fraudulent entry to customer accounts
– Discover unusual patterns which may need special attention
• Multidimensional association and sequential pattern analysis
– Find usage patterns for a set of communication services by
customer group, by month, etc.
– Promote the sales of specific services
– Improve the availability of particular services in a region
• Use of visualization tools in telecommunication data analysis
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57. Biomedical Data Analysis
• DNA sequences: 4 basic building blocks (nucleotides): adenine (A),
cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T).
• Gene: a sequence of hundreds of individual nucleotides arranged in a
particular order
• Humans have around 30,000 genes
• Tremendous number of ways that the nucleotides can be ordered and
sequenced to form distinct genes
• Semantic integration of heterogeneous, distributed genome databases
– Current: highly distributed, uncontrolled generation and use of a wide variety
of DNA data
– Data cleaning and data integration methods developed in data mining will help
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58. • Similarity search and comparison among DNA sequences
– Compare the frequently occurring patterns of each class (e.g., diseased and
healthy)
– Identify gene sequence patterns that play roles in various diseases
• Association analysis: identification of co-occurring gene sequences
– Most diseases are not triggered by a single gene but by a combination of
genes acting together
– Association analysis may help determine the kinds of genes that are likely
to co-occur together in target samples
• Path analysis: linking genes to different disease development stages
– Different genes may become active at different stages of the disease
– Develop pharmaceutical interventions that target the different stages
separately
• Visualization tools and genetic data analysis
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59. Problems in Data Warehousing
• Underestimation of resources for data loading
• Hidden problems with source systems
• Required data not captured
• Increased end-user demands
• Data homogenization
• High demand for resources
• Data ownership
• High maintenance
• Long duration projects
• Complexity of integration
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60. Major Challenges in Data Warehousing
• Data mining requires single, separate, clean, integrated, and self-consistent source of data.
– A DW is well equipped for providing data for mining.
• Data quality and consistency is essential to ensure the accuracy of the predictive models.
– DWs are populated with clean, consistent data
• Advantageous to mine data from multiple sources to discover as many interrelationships as
possible.
– DWs contain data from a number of sources.
• Selecting relevant subsets of records and fields for data mining
– requires query capabilities of the DW.
• Results of a data mining study are useful if can further investigate the uncovered patterns.
– DWs provide capability to go back to the data source.
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61. • The largest challenge a data miner may face is the sheer
volume of data in the data warehouse.
• It is quite important, then, that summary data also be
available to get the analysis started.
• A major problem is that this sheer volume may mask
the important relationships the data miner is interested
in.
• The ability to overcome the volume and be able to
interpret the data is quite important.
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62. Efficiency and scalability of data mining algorithms
Parallel, distributed, stream, and incremental mining methods
Handling high-dimensionality
Handling noise, uncertainty, and incompleteness of data
Incorporation of constraints, expert knowledge, and background knowledge in data
mining
Pattern evaluation and knowledge integration
Mining diverse and heterogeneous kinds of data: e.g., bioinformatics, Web,
software/system engineering, information networks
Application-oriented and domain-specific data mining
Invisible data mining (embedded in other functional modules)
Protection of security, integrity, and privacy in data mining
Major Challenges in Data Mining
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63. Homework
• Briefly explain data mining and define it. Why data mining being used
more widely now?
• State and explain the major applications of data mining.
• Explain briefly some limitations of data mining.
• What is the future of data mining?
• Can data mining in some areas assist in identifying corruption? Select one
area and study the possibilities.
• How is a data warehouse different from a database? How are they similar.
• Explain what data warehousing and OLAP aim to achieve that can not be
achieved by OLTP systems.
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