End Sem Prep

End Sem Prep

Unit Sub-topic Colour

IV Cluster Analysis 🟡 Yellow

IV Partitional Clusterings 🔴 Red
IV K-Means Clustering 🟢 Green
IV K-Medoids 🟡 Yellow
IV Modern Clustering Methods 🔴 Red
IV BIRCH 🔴 Red
IV DBSCAN 🔴 Red
IV CHAMELEON 🟡 Yellow

Unit 1
3 Marks
1. Define data mining - 2

2. Give some alternative terms for data mining

3. What is the use of knowledge base

4. What is attribute selection measure

5. Define KDD

6. What is pre-processing?

7. What is data reduction

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 8. List out motivational challenges involved in data mining - 2

9. What is data quality

10. What is meant by artifacts

11. What is meant by market basket analysis

8 Marks
1. Explain the origins of data mining - 3

2. Discuss the application areas of data mining

3. Write a brief note on data mining steps and tasks - 5

4. How will u ensure quality of data?

5. Write a note on preprocessing approaches

6. Write short notes on i. Nominal attributes ii. Ordinal attributes

15 Marks
1. Describe data preprocessing - 3

2. Discuss in detail different types of data with neat diagram

Unit 2
3 Marks
1. Define the concept of prediction

2. Define classification - 2

3. Define decision tree - 2

4. What is tree pruning - 2

5. Comparing clustering with classification

6. Define CART

7. Define information gain

8. State any 2 evaluation criteria of classification methods

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8 Marks
1. Explain rule-based classification in detail - 2

2. State Bayes’ theorem and discuss how Bayesian classifier works - 2

3. Explain Naïve bayes classification with example

4. Explain KNN with example - 4

5. Discuss on tree pruning - 2

6. Explain ID3 algorithm

15 Marks
1. Define classification, explain ID3 to construct a decision tree with example

2. Discuss on Naïve Bayes classifier

3. Explain Bayes’ Classification with an example - 2

Unit 3
3 Marks
1. Define association rule mining - 3

2. State association analysis

3. Define support and confidence in association rule mining - 2

4. What is the purpose of Apriori algorithm

5. Mention techniques used to improve the efficiency of Apriori algorithm

6. State the disadvantages of association rule mining

7. What is FP Growth algorithm - 2

8. State the use of FP Growth method

8 Marks
1. Explain FP Growth algorithm with example - 3

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 2. With neat diagram explain Apriori algorithm for rule generation - 2

3. Explain about association rules in transactional database

15 Marks
1. Discuss Apriori Algorithm in detail - 2

Unit 4
3 Marks
1. Define clustering

2. What is cluster analysis - 2

3. Specify any 3 requirements of clustering in data mining

4. Different data types used for clustering

5. What is unsupervised learning

6. What is BIRCH - 2

7. 2 advantages of DBSCAN method

8. State chameleon clustering algorithm

9. What is partitional clustering

10. Differentiate between K-Means and K-medoids

8 Marks
1. Explain hierarchical clustering with example

2. Discuss about BIRCH in detail

3. Explain about different distance measures

4. Explain K-means algorithm in detail - 2

5. Discuss a centroid-based clustering technique

6. What is the purpose and procedure of Density based cluster analysis

15 Marks

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 1. Write K-Means and K-Medoids algorithms with examples - 2

2. Describe CHAMELEON cluster algorithm in detail

3. Explain DBSCAN with example

4. Explain partition methods in cluster analysis with examples

Unit 5
3 Marks
1. What does web mining mean - 4

2. What is data warehousing

3. Compare data warehouse and data mining

4. Define text mining

5. Write the applications of data mining

6. What is OLAP

7. List challenges involved in web mining

8. What is spatial mining?

9. What is meta data?

8 Marks
1. Discuss various features of Text Mining - 2

2. Discuss about web and spatial data mining

3. Explain the 3-tier data warehouse architecture

4. Discuss the architecture of data warehouse with neat sketch - 2

5. Explain the types of OLAP services - 2

15 Marks
1. Discuss how data mining techniques are useful in Health Care Industry

2. .

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 a. Explain Applications of data mining in banking and healthcare

b. List out features of data warehouse

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