Module 2

Important Questions
Chapter 1
1. Explain indexing OLAP data: Bitmap index and join index with example.
2. Explain how Data cube computation is done efficiently during Data warehouse
implementation.
3. Describe ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP.
Chapter 2
1. What is data mining? Explain Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Or
With a neat diagram explain the KDD process in Data Mining.
2. What are different challenges that motivated the development of DM?
3. Explain Origins of Data Mining.
4. Discuss the tasks of Data Mining with suitable examples.
5. Explain Anomaly Detection. Give an example.
6. Explain Descriptive tasks in detail by example.
7. Explain Predictive tasks in detail by example.
Chapter 3
1. Explain data set. Give an Example.
2. Explain 4 types of attributes by giving appropriate example.
3. With example, explain
a) Continuous
b) Discrete
c) Asymmetric Attributes
4. Explain general characteristics of data sets.
5. Explain record data & its types.
6. Explain graph-based data.
7. Explain ordered data & its types.
8. Define Data pre-processing. Explain shortly any five data pre-processing approaches.
9. What is sampling? Explain simple random sampling vs. stratified sampling vs. progressive
sampling.
10. Write a short note on the following.
a) Dimensionality reduction
b) Variable transformation
c) Feature selection
11. Distinguish between:
a) SMC & Jaccard coefficient
b) Discretization & binarization
12. Explain various distances used for measuring dissimilarity between objects.
13. Consider the following 2 binary vectors X= (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) Y= (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
1, 0, 0, 1) Find:
a) Hamming Distance
b) SMC
c) Jaccard coefficient
14. For the following vectors X and Y, calculate the cosine similarity, where X= {3 2 0 5 0 0
0 2 0 0} Y= {1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2}
15. List out issues in proximity calculation.
16. List any 5 applications of data mining.