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This assignment involves applying data mining techniques like association rule mining, classification, and clustering on mushroom and grocery store transaction datasets. Students must pre-process the data, run experiments with different algorithms and parameter settings, and prepare a report discussing the theoretical background, results, analysis, and references. The assignment is worth 20% of the total grade for the unit and is due on Friday of week 12.

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This assignment involves applying data mining techniques like association rule mining, classification, and clustering on mushroom and grocery store transaction datasets. Students must pre-process the data, run experiments with different algorithms and parameter settings, and prepare a report discussing the theoretical background, results, analysis, and references. The assignment is worth 20% of the total grade for the unit and is due on Friday of week 12.

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NIT6160 Assignment 2: Data Warehousing and Mining

Assignment 2

This project is worth 20% of the total assessment of this unit and is due on Friday week 12 5 PM.

The goal of this project is to applying association rule mining, classification and clustering methods
on the Mushroom and groceries data sets. For detailed information about the mush room data set,
refer to the Machine Learning Repository provided by the University of California, Irvine. You can
download and read more about the data there.

The groceries Dataset

Imagine 10000 receipts sitting on your table. Each receipt represents a transaction with items that
were purchased. The receipt is a representation of stuff that went into a customer’s basket. That is
exactly what the Groceries Data Set contains: a collection of receipts with each line representing 1
receipt and the items purchased. Each line is called a transaction and each column in a row
represents an item.

Task 1: Data Pre-processing

Read the data in R. There are many ways to read in csv tables in R. For more details, please refer to
data import/export in R
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-data.pdf

For the clustering experiments, the column for class labels need to be removed. Refer to lecture
Module 10 to see how to do so.

Verify if any other pre-processing is beneficial for the analysis. For example, replacing missing
values, attribute range normalization, converting numerical or string to nominal values etc.

Task 2: Data Mining

 Association Rule Mining experiments: Using R to explorer "association rules" on the groceries
dataset. Try out different algorithms. Visualize the result you found. Report any interesting
association rules discovered in the experiments and explain why they are interesting.
 Classification experiments: Using to construct classifiers on the mushroom dataset. Randomly
split the data set in the training and test data set (80% v.s. 20%). Select at least one classifier from
each of the following two categories of classifiers: Tree-based models, Bayes classifiers, and Rule-
based classifiers. Compare the result of the chosen classifiers.

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 Clustering experiments: Using R explorer clusters on the mushroom dataset. Select and compare
two clustering algorithms from R (e.g. k-means v.s. density-based). Use R to visually explore the
resulting clusters.
 For all the above experimentations, try different parameter settings to fine tune the outcome. In
principle select methods that work well on the given data set.

Task 3: Prepare a report

Your report should contain the following:

 Theoretical Discussion: Limited to two pages discussing about data preprocessing steps, the
motivation for selecting a particular method, and how the parameters are chosen.
 Results: Include results and screenshots of the above experimentations.
 Discussion and error analysis: Try to interpret the results of your model. Discuss intuitions or
hypothesis that can be obtained by visual inspections of the resulting classes or clusters. Mention
about assumptions if any, discuss issues that might have affected the model's performance.
 References: If you are using information from other sources apart from R manual and official
website, you should cite them.

Submission Instructions
This section is intended for submission instructions in learning systems.

Grading

Report Section Max. points


Theoretical discussion and data-preprocessing 5%
Results 10%
Error analysis & references 5%
Total 20%

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