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Which of the following best describes 'noisy data'?
Which of the following best describes 'noisy data'?
What is one method for handling missing data effectively?
What is one method for handling missing data effectively?
Which data cleaning issue does not relate to data integration?
Which data cleaning issue does not relate to data integration?
In the context of data handling, what is binning?
In the context of data handling, what is binning?
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When might ignoring a tuple be an appropriate action for handling missing data?
When might ignoring a tuple be an appropriate action for handling missing data?
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What is the purpose of the first principal component (PC) in PCA?
What is the purpose of the first principal component (PC) in PCA?
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What is the first step in the PCA algorithm?
What is the first step in the PCA algorithm?
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Which method is NOT a technique for attribute subset selection?
Which method is NOT a technique for attribute subset selection?
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Which statement best describes the role of eigenvalues in PCA?
Which statement best describes the role of eigenvalues in PCA?
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What is the main purpose of removing redundant attributes during attribute subset selection?
What is the main purpose of removing redundant attributes during attribute subset selection?
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What is the primary role of data integration in data management?
What is the primary role of data integration in data management?
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What is meant by 'dimensionality reduction' in data analysis?
What is meant by 'dimensionality reduction' in data analysis?
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Which of the following is a consequence of the 'curse of dimensionality'?
Which of the following is a consequence of the 'curse of dimensionality'?
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What technique is commonly used for dimensionality reduction?
What technique is commonly used for dimensionality reduction?
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In data integration, how can redundancy be handled effectively?
In data integration, how can redundancy be handled effectively?
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Why is achieving a reduced representation of a dataset important?
Why is achieving a reduced representation of a dataset important?
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What can be affected negatively by high dimensionality in a dataset?
What can be affected negatively by high dimensionality in a dataset?
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What is one of the main reasons for applying data reduction strategies?
What is one of the main reasons for applying data reduction strategies?
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What is the primary purpose of discretization in data preparation?
What is the primary purpose of discretization in data preparation?
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In Z-score normalization, what does the formula v' = (v - μA) / σA represent?
In Z-score normalization, what does the formula v' = (v - μA) / σA represent?
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What is a characteristic of normalization by decimal scaling?
What is a characteristic of normalization by decimal scaling?
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Which data quality factor pertains to whether the data is suitable for a given purpose?
Which data quality factor pertains to whether the data is suitable for a given purpose?
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What type of discretization combines two or more intervals into a broader interval?
What type of discretization combines two or more intervals into a broader interval?
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What is the main purpose of data transformation in data preprocessing?
What is the main purpose of data transformation in data preprocessing?
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Which method would be classified as a non-parametric method of data reduction?
Which method would be classified as a non-parametric method of data reduction?
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What does min-max normalization achieve?
What does min-max normalization achieve?
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In data preprocessing, what is the main goal of data cleaning?
In data preprocessing, what is the main goal of data cleaning?
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Which of the following statements correctly describes L1-regularization?
Which of the following statements correctly describes L1-regularization?
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Which technique specifically focuses on reducing data volume through alternatives to original representations?
Which technique specifically focuses on reducing data volume through alternatives to original representations?
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What is the key feature of parametric methods for data reduction?
What is the key feature of parametric methods for data reduction?
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In the context of data discretization, what is a primary goal?
In the context of data discretization, what is a primary goal?
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Study Notes
Data Preprocessing
- Data Cleaning is the process of identifying and correcting inaccurate, incomplete, noisy, or inconsistent data in a dataset.
- Real-world data is often "dirty" due to factors like faulty instruments, human or computer errors, or transmission errors.
- Incomplete Data lacks attribute values, attributes of interest, or may contain only aggregate data. For example, "Occupation=''" represents missing data.
- Noisy Data contains errors or outliers. For example, "Salary='-10'" indicates an error.
- Inconsistent Data has discrepancies in codes or names. For example, "Age='42'" and "Birthday='03/07/2010'" are inconsistent or "Rating" values changed from "1, 2, 3" to "A, B, C"
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Handling Missing Data:
- Ignore the tuple: This strategy works well when the class label is missing in classification tasks, but is less effective when missing value percentages vary significantly across attributes.
- Fill with a global constant: Use a value like "unknown," but this may create a new class.
- Use the attribute mean/median/mode: Fill in the missing data with these measures.
- Use the attribute mean/median/mode for all samples belonging to the same class: This method employs data specific to the class.
- Use the most probable value: Employ inference methods like Bayesian formulas or decision trees for estimation.
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Handling Noisy Data:
- Binning: Organize data into sorted bins. Smooth values by using bin means, medians, or boundaries.
- Regression: Fit the data to regression functions to smooth outliers.
- Clustering: Identify and remove outliers.
- Data Integration combines data from various sources into a unified data store.
- Schema Integration involves integrating metadata from different sources, for example, aligning "cust-id" and "cust-#" between tables.
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Handling Redundancy in Data Integration:
- Object Identification: Addresses situations where the same attribute or object has different names in various databases.
- Derivable Data: Recognizes where one attribute is a derived attribute in another table.
- Redundant Attributes can be detected through correlation analysis.
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Data Reduction aims to simplify the data representation while minimizing volume but maintaining analytical results.
- Data reduction becomes crucial when databases or data warehouses store massive data volumes.
- Data Reduction Techniques Include:
- Dimensionality Reduction: Reduces the number of input features.
- Numerosity Reduction: Reduces the number of data points.
Data Reduction 1: Dimensionality Reduction
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Curse of Dimensionality: As the number of dimensions (features) increases, data becomes sparser.
- Density and distance between data points become less meaningful.
- The number of possible subspaces grows exponentially, making analysis difficult.
- Dimensionality reduction techniques:
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Principal Component Analysis (PCA): A linear transformation method that projects data onto a lower-dimensional subspace while retaining as much variance as possible.
-Supervised and nonlinear techniques: Include feature selection methods.
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Principal Component Analysis (PCA): A linear transformation method that projects data onto a lower-dimensional subspace while retaining as much variance as possible.
Data Reduction 2: Numerosity Reduction
- Numerosity Reduction: Techniques for deriving smaller, alternative data representations than the raw data.
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Non-parametric methods:
- Random sampling: Draws a subset of the data randomly.
- Stratified sampling: Randomly samples based on strata in the data (e.g., gender, age groups).
- Histograms: Group the data into bins and count the occurrences within each bin.
- Clustering: Groups similar data points together.
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Parametric methods:
- Regression: Finds mathematical relationships between variables to estimate data.
Data Transformation
- Data Transformation involves changing the representation of data without losing information. This can be done with methods like normalization or discretization.
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Normalization: Rescales data to fit within a smaller specified range.
- Min-max normalization: Maps data to a new range between a minimum and maximum value.
- Z-score normalization: Scales data by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation.
- Normalization by decimal scaling: Divides values by the highest power of 10 such that the maximum absolute value is less than 1.
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Discretization: Groups continuous data into intervals.
- Discretization simplifies analysis by transforming continuous values into discrete categories.
- Discretization can be performed recursively on an attribute.
- Split (top-down) and merge (bottom-up) approaches are common methods.
Summary of Data Preparation
- Good data quality is essential: Accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, believability, and interpretability are key attributes.
- Data cleaning addresses missing values, noisy data, and outliers.
- Data integration tackles entity identification, redundancy removal, and inconsistency detection.
- Data reduction techniques like dimensionality reduction and numerosity reduction reduce data volume and complexity.
- Data transformation and discretization help prepare data for analysis.
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This quiz covers the essential concepts of data preprocessing, specifically focusing on data cleaning techniques. It includes identifying and managing issues like incomplete, noisy, and inconsistent data. Test your understanding of how to handle missing values and improve data quality.
