Data Mining

Introduction:
Motivation
Motivation

Why Data mining

Explosive Growth of
Data: from terabytes to
petabytes

Data collection & data

availability: Automated data
collection tools,
database systems,
Web, emails
Computerized society
Motivation

Sources of Data
• Web Data
• E-Commerce
• Bank Transactions
• Digital Media
• Online Games
• Research:
scientific &
biomedical
Introduction

Online data
Every 60 seconds
 98k+ tweets
 695000 FB updates
 11 million chats
 698445 google
 168 million+ emails
 1820 TB data
 217 new mobile web users
Introduction

Solution
We Are drowning in
data but lacking in
knowledge.

The solution is to mine

the knowledge from
data.

Automated analysis of
massive data sets
Introduction
Science evolution
history
 Before 1600-
Empirical Science
 1600-1950:
Theoretical Science
 1950-1990:
Computational
Science
 1990-onwards: Data
Science