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Introduction to Data Mining

Introduction to Data Mining. Dr. Hany Saleeb. Why Data Mining? — Potential Applications. Direct Marketing identify which prospects should be included in a mailing list Market segmentation identify common characteristics of customers who buy same products Market Basket Analysis

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Introduction to Data Mining

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  1. Introduction to Data Mining Dr. Hany Saleeb

  2. Why Data Mining? — Potential Applications • Direct Marketing • identify which prospects should be included in a mailing list • Market segmentation • identify common characteristics of customers who buy same products • Market Basket Analysis • Identify what products are likely to be bought together • Insurance Claims Analysis • discover patterns of fraudulent transactions • compare current transactions against those patterns

  3. What Is Data Mining? • Combination of AI and statistical analysis to discover information that is “hidden” in the data • associations (e.g. linking purchase of pizza with beer) • sequences (e.g. tying events together: marriage and purchase of furniture) • classifications (e.g. recognizing patterns such as the attributes of employees that are most likely to quit) • forecasting (e.g. predicting buying habits of customers based on past patterns) Expert systems or small ML/statistical programs

  4. What can data mining do? • Classification – Classify credit applicants as low, medium, high risk – Classify insurance claims as normal, suspicious • Estimation – Estimate the probability of a direct mailing response – Estimate the lifetime value of a customer • Prediction – Predict which customers will leave within six months – Predict the size of the balance that will be transferred by a credit card prospect

  5. What can data mining do? (cont’d) • Association – Find out items customers are likely to buy together – Find out what books to recommend to Amazon.com users • Clustering – Difference from classification: classes are unknown!

  6. Market Analysis and Management • Where are the data sources for analysis? • Credit card transactions, loyalty cards, discount coupons, customer complaint calls, plus (public) lifestyle studies • Target marketing • Find clusters of “model” customers who share the same characteristics: interest, income level, spending habits, etc. • Determine customer purchasing patterns over time • Conversion of single to a joint bank account: marriage, etc. • Cross-market analysis • Associations/co-relations between product sales • Prediction based on the association information

  7. Data Mining: Confluence of Multiple Disciplines Database Technology Statistics Data Mining Machine Learning Visualization Information Science Other Disciplines

  8. Data Mining: On What Kind of Data? • Relational databases • Data warehouses • Transactional databases • Advanced DB and information repositories • Object-oriented and object-relational databases • Spatial databases • Time-series data and temporal data • Text databases and multimedia databases • Heterogeneous and legacy databases • WWW

  9. Data Mining Process Learning Collecting relevant data Model building Understanding of business Problem identification Business strategy and evaluation Action

  10. Requirements/challenges in Data Mining • User interface • Mining methodology • Performance • Data source • Social and Security

  11. Requirements/challenges in Data Mining(2) • User interface - Data Visualization • Understandability and interpretation of results • Information representation and rendering • Screen real-estate - Interactivity • Manipulation of mined knowledge • focus and refine mining tasks • Focus and refine mining results

  12. Requirements/challenges in Data Mining(3) • Mining Methodology • Mining different kinds of knowledge in databases • Interactive mining of knowledge at multiple levels of abstraction • Incorporation of background knowledge • Query languages • Expression and visualization of results • Handling noise and incomplete data • Pattern evaluation

  13. Requirements/challenges in Data Mining (4) • Performance • Efficiency and scalability of data mining algorithms • Linear algorithms needed • Parallel and distributed methods • Incremental methods • Divide and conquer?

  14. Requirements/challenges in Data Mining(5) • Data Source • Diversity of data types • Handling complex types of data • Mining information from heterogenous data bases or information repositories • Can we expect a DM algorithm to do well on all types of data ? • Data glut • Are we collecting the right data for the right answer? • Distinguish between important and unimportant data

  15. Requirements/challenges in Data Mining(6) • Social and Security -Social Impact • Private and sensitive data is gathered and mined without individual’s knowledge and/or consent • Appropriate use and distribution of discovered knowledge - Regulations Need for privacy and DM policies

  16. Data Mining Tools

  17. Summary • The benefits of knowing one’s business is critical; technologies are coming together to support data mining. • Data mining is the process and result of knowledge production, knowledge discovery and knowledge management.

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