What is data mining? Flashcards

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What is data mining (2)?

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Extracting or mining knowledge from large amounts of data

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What is data?

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Any facts, numbers, text, images etc that can be processed by a computer

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Data mining is ____ driven

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data

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What us aim of data mining?

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large dataset, interested in building a small model but that describes data well.

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Data Mining Definition

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The process of selection, extraction and modelling of large quantities of data to discover patterns or relations that are first unknown within the aim of obtaining clear and useful results for the owner of the database.

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Process of data mining

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Data cleaning
Data integration
Selections and transformation
Data mining
Interpretation
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Data mining is NOT?

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Not simply statistical analysis
Doesn’t eliminate the need to know the business. It assist in finding patterns and relationships in data- but doesn’t provide information regarding the value of these patterns.

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