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What is a characteristic of nominal data?
What is a characteristic of nominal data?
- It is used in data mining for classification and clustering tasks. (correct)
- It is used in data mining for ranking and regression tasks.
- It has an inherent order or hierarchy.
- It represents qualitative data that can be measured or compared with numbers.
What is the primary purpose of categorizing attributes into different types in data preprocessing?
What is the primary purpose of categorizing attributes into different types in data preprocessing?
- To determine the data type for each attribute.
- To serve as a foundation for subsequent data processing steps. (correct)
- To reduce the dimensionality of the dataset.
- To identify the most important attributes for data mining tasks.
What type of data can be ranked in a particular order, but the distance between values is not uniform?
What type of data can be ranked in a particular order, but the distance between values is not uniform?
- Nominal data
- Binary data
- Quantitative data
- Ordinal data (correct)
What is a characteristic of binary data?
What is a characteristic of binary data?
What is the term used to describe an organized collection of data?
What is the term used to describe an organized collection of data?
What is the term used to describe a property or characteristic of an object?
What is the term used to describe a property or characteristic of an object?
What is the primary issue in data mining that pattern evaluation addresses?
What is the primary issue in data mining that pattern evaluation addresses?
What is the term used to describe a collection of attributes that describe an object?
What is the term used to describe a collection of attributes that describe an object?
What is the term used to describe a discovered pattern that lacks novelty?
What is the term used to describe a discovered pattern that lacks novelty?
What is the primary purpose of pattern evaluation in data mining?
What is the primary purpose of pattern evaluation in data mining?
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Study Notes
Data Mining
- Data mining is the process of extracting knowledge or insights from large amounts of data using various statistical and computational techniques.
- The primary goal of data mining is to discover hidden patterns and relationships in the data that can be used to make informed decisions or predictions.
- Data mining can be performed on structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data, stored in various forms such as databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Applications of Data Mining
- Data mining has a wide range of applications across various industries, including marketing, finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.
- Examples of applications include:
- Identifying customer segments and targeting marketing campaigns in marketing.
- Identifying risk factors for diseases and developing personalized treatment plans in healthcare.
Use Cases of Data Mining
- Market Basket Analysis: analyzing data on customer purchases to identify items that are frequently purchased together and making recommendations or suggestions to customers.
- Fraud Detection: identifying outliers or correlations that should not exist, such as reoccurring payments to an unknown account.
Types of Data
- Relational Database: a collection of multiple data sets formally organized by tables, records, and columns.
- Data Warehouse: a technology that collects data from various sources to provide meaningful business insights, used for analytical purposes and decision-making.
- Data Repositories: a destination for data storage, often referring to a specific kind of setup within an IT structure.
- Object-Relational Database: a combination of object-oriented and relational database models, supporting classes, objects, inheritance, etc.
Data and Attributes
- Data: a collection of data objects and their attributes.
- Attribute: a property or characteristic of an object, also known as a variable, field, characteristic, or feature.
- Data Object: a collection of attributes that describe an object, also known as a record, point, case, sample, entity, or instance.
- Data Set: an organized collection of data, often associated with a unique body of work and covering one topic at a time.
Types of Attributes
- Nominal Data: qualitative data that cannot be measured or compared with numbers, representing categories without inherent order or hierarchy.
- Ordinal Data: categorical data with an inherent order or hierarchy, but with non-uniform distances between values.
- Binary Data: data with only two possible values, often represented as 0 or 1.
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