Module 1 Introduction

■ Data Mining –Stages of the Data Mining Process

■ Data Mining Knowledge Representation
■ Technologies
■ Major Issues in Data Mining
■ Data Warehousing
■ Multidimensional data
■ OLAP Vs OLTP

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 Database Management System
■ Definitions: ?
■ S/w to create and manipulate database
■ Example: ?
■ Booking flight ticket
■ Registering course in vtop
■ Booking hotels
■ Trading (share market)

■ Transactions:
■ OLTP : OnLine Transaction
Processing

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 Why Data Mining?

■ Explosive growth of data

■ Data from
■ Business
■ Science
■ Education
■ Society

We drowning in data but starving for knowledge

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Science Data

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 Business data

Customer Bought in Tatacliq.

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 Data Mining
Data mining:

Extracting or mining knowledge from huge amounts of data.

Alternative names:

knowledge mining from data,

knowledge extraction,

data/pattern analysis,

data archeology,

data dredging,

Knowledge
Discovery
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Data (KDD).
 Knowledge Discovery (KDD) Process

Pattern Evaluation

Data Mining

Task-relevant Data

Data Warehouse Selection and

Transformatio
n
Data Cleaning

Data Integration

Databases
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Architecture: Typical Data Mining System

Graphical User Interface

Knowledge
Pattern Evaluation Base

Data Mining Engine

Database or Data Warehouse

Server

data cleaning, integration, and

selection

Data World- Other Info

Database Repositories
Warehous Wide
e Web
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 Data Mining: On What Kinds of Data?
■ Database-oriented data sets and applications
■
Relational database, data warehouse, transactional
database
■ Advanced data sets and advanced applications
■
Object-relational databases
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Temporal data, Sequence data, Time-series data,
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Spatial data and spatiotemporal data
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Text databases and Multimedia database
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Heterogeneous databases and legacy databases
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Data streams and sensor data
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The World-Wide Web
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Data mining Task
Two categories:
Descriptive:
Mining tasks characterize the general properties of the data in the
database.

Predictive:
Mining tasks perform inference on the current data in order to
make predictions.

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