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Data Mining Tasks

The document discusses various data mining tasks: 1. Descriptive data mining offers detailed descriptions and common characteristics of data without prior knowledge, while predictive data mining allows considering unavailable features to forecast outcomes. 2. Key tasks include characterization/discrimination to describe/distinguish classes, prediction to infer missing/future data, classification to organize data into predefined classes, association analysis to discover relationships between attributes, outlier analysis to identify anomalous data, and cluster analysis to group similar data without labels. 3. Additional tasks are evolution/deviation analysis to identify patterns and shifts over time. These tasks have wide applications from space science to retail marketing.

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Data Mining Tasks

The document discusses various data mining tasks: 1. Descriptive data mining offers detailed descriptions and common characteristics of data without prior knowledge, while predictive data mining allows considering unavailable features to forecast outcomes. 2. Key tasks include characterization/discrimination to describe/distinguish classes, prediction to infer missing/future data, classification to organize data into predefined classes, association analysis to discover relationships between attributes, outlier analysis to identify anomalous data, and cluster analysis to group similar data without labels. 3. Additional tasks are evolution/deviation analysis to identify patterns and shifts over time. These tasks have wide applications from space science to retail marketing.

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Data Mining Tasks – Overview

Data mining functionalities are to perceive the various forms of patterns to be identified
in data mining activities. To define the type of patterns to be discovered in data mining
activities, data mining features are used. Data mining has a wide application for
forecasting and characterizing data in big data.

Data mining tasks are majorly categorized into two categories: descriptive and
predictive.

1. Descriptive data mining:


Descriptive data mining offers a detailed description of the data, for example- it
gives insight into what's going on inside the data without any prior idea. This
demonstrates the common characteristics in the results. It includes any
information to grasp what's going on in the data without a prior idea.
2. Predictive Data Mining:
This allows users to consider features that are not specifically available. For
example, the projection of the market analysis in the next quarters with the
output of the previous quarters, In general, the predictive analysis forecasts or
infers the features of the data previously available. For an instance: judging by the
outcomes of medical records of a patient who suffers from some real illness.

Key Data Mining Tasks


1) Characterization and Discrimination
 Data Characterization: The characterization of data is a description of the
general characteristics of objects in a target class which creates what are called
characteristic rules.
A database query usually computes the data applicable to a user-specified class
and runs through a description component to retrieve the meaning of the data at
various abstraction levels.
Eg;-Bar maps, curves, and pie charts.
 Data Discrimination: Data discrimination creates a series of rules called
discriminate rules that is simply a distinction between the two classes aligned
with the goal class and the opposite class of the general characteristics of objects.

2) Prediction
To detect the inaccessible data, it uses regression analysis and detects the missing
numeric values in the data. If the classmark is absent, so classification is used to render
the prediction. Due to its relevance in business intelligence, the prediction is common. If
the classmark is absent, so the prediction is performed using classification. There are
two methods of predicting data. Due to its relevance in business intelligence, a
prediction is common. The prediction of the classmark using the previously developed
class model and the prediction of incomplete or incomplete data using prediction
analysis are two ways of predicting data.

3) Classification
Classification is used to create data structures of predefined classes, as the model is
used to classify new instances whose classification is not understood. The instances used
to produce the model are known as data from preparation. A decision tree or set of
classification rules is based on such a form of classification process that can be collected
to identify future details, for example by classifying the possible compensation of the
employee based on the classification of salaries of related employees in the company.

Read more: Classification and Prediction in Data Mining

4) Association Analysis
The link between the data and the rules that bind them is discovered. And two or more
data attributes are associated. It associates qualities that are transacted together
regularly. They work out what are called the rules of partnerships that are commonly
used in the study of stock baskets. To link the attributes, there are two elements. One is
the trust that suggests the possibility of both associated together, and another helps,
which informs of associations' past occurrence.

5) Outlier Analysis
Data components that cannot be clustered into a given class or cluster are outliers. They
are often referred to as anomalies or surprises and are also very important to remember.

Although in some contexts, outliers can be called noise and discarded, they can disclose
useful information in other areas, and hence can be very important and beneficial for
their study.

Read more: Outlier Analysis


6) Cluster Analysis
Clustering is the arrangement of data in groups. Unlike classification, however, class
labels are undefined in clustering and it is up to the clustering algorithm to find suitable
classes. Clustering is often called unsupervised classification since provided class labels
do not execute the classification. Many clustering methods are all based on the concept
of maximizing the similarity (intra-class similarity) between objects of the same class and
decreasing the similarity between objects in different classes (inter-class similarity).

7) Evolution & Deviation Analysis


We may uncover patterns and shifts in actions over time, with such distinct analysis, we
can find features such as time-series results, periodicity, and similarities in patterns.
Many technologies from space science to retail marketing can be found holistically in
data processing and features.

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