This document provides an introduction to data mining. It discusses the evolution of data mining technology, defines what data mining is, and outlines common data mining tasks like classification, clustering, and association rule discovery. The document also examines the KDD process, different types of data that can be mined, and major issues in data mining like scalability, handling diverse data types, and integrating discovered knowledge.

1. By
R. Deepa (IT),
Batch: 2016-2019
Department of (CS&IT),
Nadar Saraswathi College of Arts Science, Theni.
Concepts and
Techniques

2. CHAPTER : 1
INTRODUCTION
 Evolution of Data Mining technology
 What is Data Mining?
 Data Mining Tasks
 Data Mining : On what kind of data?
 Are all the patterns interesting?
 Data Mining : A KDD Process
 Classification of Data Mining systems
 Major Issues in Data mining
 Summary

3. EVOLUTION OF DATA MINING TECHNOLOGY
Evolution Step Business Question Enabling
Technologies
Data Collection
(1960s)
“What was my total revenue
in the last five years? ”
Computers,
tapes,disks
Data Access
(1980s)
“What were unit sales in New
England last March? “
Relational Databases
(RDBMS),
Structured Query
Language(SQL),
ODBC
Data Warehousing &
Decision Support
(1990s)
“What were unit sales in New
England last March? Drill
down to Boston.”
On-line analytic
processing(OLAP),
Multidimensional
Database, Data
Warehouses
Data Mining
(Emerging Today)
“What ’s likely to happen to
Boston unit sales next month?
Why? “
Advanced algorithms,
Multiprocessor
Computers,
Massive Databases
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4. WHAT IS DATA MINING ?
Data Mining:
Data Mining refers to extracting or “Mining” knowledge
from large amounts of data.
• Extraction of interesting (non-trivial, implicit, previously
unknown, and potentially useful) information or patterns from data
in large databases.
Alternatives Names:
Knowledge Discovery from Data(KDD),
Knowledge extraction,
Data / pattern analysis,
Data archeology,
Data dredging,
Information harvesting,
Business intelligence, etc..,
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5. DECISIONS IN DATA MINING :
Databases to be mined
Relational, transactional, object-oriented, object-
relational, spatial, time-series, text, legacy, multi-media,
heterogeneous, WWW, etc.
Knowledge to be mined
Association, classification, clustering , etc.
Techniques utilized
Database-oriented, Data warehouse(OLAP), Machine
learning, Statistics, Visualization, Neural Networks, etc.
Applications adapted
Retail, Telecommunication, Banking, Fraud analysis, DNA
mining, Stock market analysis, Web mining, Weblog analysis, etc.
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6. DATA MINING TASKS
 Prediction Tasks:
Use some variables to predict unknown or future
values of other variables.
 Description Tasks:
Find human-interpretable patterns that describe
the data.
Common Data Mining Tasks:
• Classification(predictive)
• Clustering(descriptive)
• Association Rule Discovery(descriptive)
• Sequential Pattern Discovery(descriptive)
• Regression (predictive)
• Deviation Detection(predictive)
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7. DATA MINING - A KDD PROCESS
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DATABASES
DATA
MINING
DATA
WAREHOUSE
PATTERNS
FLAT FILES
Cleaning and
Integration
Selection and
Transformation
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8. 7 STEPS IN KDD PROCESS
1.Data Cleaning:
to remove noise and inconsistent data
2.Data Integration:
where multiple data sources may be combined
3.Data Selection:
where data relevant to the analysis task are retrieved from the database
4.Data Transformation:
where data are transformed and consolidated into forms appropriate for
mining performing summary or aggregation operations.
5.Data Mining:
an essential process where intelligent methods are applied to extract
data patterns
6.Pattern Evaluation:
to identify the truly interesting patterns representing knowledge based
on interestingness measures.
6.Knowledge Presentation:
where visualization and knowledge representation techniques are used to
present mined knowledge to users .
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9. ARCHITECTURE OF A TYPICAL DATA
MINING SYSTEM
Graphical user interface
Pattern evaluation
Data mining engine
Database or Data warehouse
Server
Data
Warehouse
Knowledge-Base
DataBases
Data Cleaning & Data Integration Filtering
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10. DATA MINING - ON WHAT KIND OF DATA?
1.Relational Databases
2.Data Warehouses
3.Transactional Databases
4.Advanced Data and Information System
• Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases
• Heterogeneous and Legacy Databases
• Text Databases
• Multimedia Databases
• Data Streams
• WWW
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11. DATA MINING FUNCTIONALITIES
 Concept /Class Description: Characterization and
Discrimination
Generalize, summarize and contrast data
characteristics, eg., dry vs. wet regions .
 Data Characterization is a summarization of the
general characteristics or features in a target class of
data.
 Data Discrimination is a comparison of the general
features of target class data objects with the general
features of objects from one or a set of contrasting
classes.
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12.  Association (Correlations and Causality)
* Multi- dimensional vs. single dimensional
association
* age( X, ”20….29”)^income (X,”20…..29K”) 
buys( X, “PC”)[Support=2%, Confidence= 60%]
* contains( T, “Computer”)contains (
X,”Software”) [1% and 75%]
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13.  Classification and Prediction
* Finding models (function) that describe and
distinguish classes or concepts for future prediction
* Eg., classify countries based on climate, or
classify cars based on gas mileage.
Presentation: Decision tree, Classification rule, Neural network
Prediction: predict some unknown or missing numerical values
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14.  Cluster Analysis
Class label is unknown: Group data to form new
classes, eg., Cluster houses to find distribution patterns
Clustering based on the principle: Maximizing
the intra-class similarity and minimizing the inter-class similarity.

15.  Outlier Analysis
Outlier: A data object that does not comply with the
general behavior of the data
It can be considered as noise or exception but
is quite useful in fraud detection, rare events analysis.
Trend and Evolution Analysis
Trend and Deviation: regression analysis
Sequential pattern mining, periodicity analysis
Similarity based Analysis
Other pattern directed or statistical
analyses
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16. ARE ALL THE “DISCOVERED”
PATTERNS INTERESTING?
 A data mining system/query may generate thousands of
patterns, not all of them are interesting.
 Suggested approach: Human-oriented, query-based,
focused mining
 Interestingness measures : A pattern is interesting if it is
easily understood by humans, valid on new or test data with
some degree of certainty, potentially useful, novel, or validates
some hypothesis that a user seeks to confirm
 Objective vs. subjective interestingness measures:
Objective: based on statistics and structures of patterns,
eg., support, confidence, etc.
Subjective: based on user’s belief in the data, eg.,
unexpectedness, novelty, actionability, etc.
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17. CAN WE FIND AND ONLY INTERESTING
PATTERNS?
 Find all the interesting patterns: Completeness
 Can a data mining system find all the interesting patterns?
 Association vs. Classification vs. Clustering
 Search for only interesting patterns : Optimization
 Can a data mining system find only the interesting patterns?
 Approaches
 First general all the patterns and then filter out the
uninteresting ones.
 Generate only the interesting patterns-mining query
optimization
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18. DATA MINING: CONFLUENCE OF
MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES
Statistics
Visualization
Other
Disciplines
Data MiningMachine
Learning
Information
Science
Database
Technology
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19. DATA MINING : CLASSIFICATION
SCHEMES
 General Functionality
 Descriptive data mining
 Predictive data mining
 Different views ,different classifications
 Kinds of databases to be mined
 Kinds of knowledge to be discovered
 Kinds of techniques utilized
 Kinds of applications adapted
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20. MAJOR ISSUES IN DATA MINING
 Mining methodology and user interaction
 Mining different kinds of knowledge in databases
 Interactive mining of Knowledge at multiple levels of
abstraction
 Incorporation of background knowledge
 Data mining query languages and ad-hoc data mining
 Expression and visualization of data mining results
 Handling noise and incomplete data
 Pattern evaluation: the interestingness problem
 Performance and scalability
 Efficiency and scalability of data mining algorithms
 Parallel, distributed and incremental mining methods
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21.  Issues relating to the diversity of data types
 Handling relational and complex types of data
 Mining information from heterogeneous databases and
global information systems(WWW)
 Issues related to applications and social impacts
 Application of discovered knowledge
• Domain-specific data mining tools
• Intelligent query answering
• Process control and decision making
 Integration of the discovered knowledge with existing
knowledge: A knowledge fusion problem
 Protection of data security, integrity, and privacy.
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22. SUMMARY
 Data Mining: discovering interesting patterns from large
amounts of data
 A natural evolution of databases technology, in great demand
, with wide applications
 A KDD process includes data cleaning, data integration, data
selection, transformation, data mining, pattern evaluation, and
knowledge presentation
 Mining can be performed in a variety of information
repositories
 Data mining functionalities:
Characterization, Discrimination, Association,
Classification, Clustering, Outlier and Trend analysis, etc.
 Classification of Data mining systems
 Major issues in Data Mining. R.Deepa IT

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