Promising

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Promising Newer Technologies to Cope with the
Information Flood

• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
• Agent-based Technologies
• Ontologies and Knowledge Brokering
• Non-traditional data analysis techniques

Model Generation As an Example To Explain
/ Discuss Technologies
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Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining
(KDD)
Let us find something interesting!

• Definition KDD is the non-trivial process of
  identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and
  ultimately understandable patterns in data
  (Fayyad)
• Frequently, the term data mining is used to refer
  to KDD.
• Many commercial and experimental tools and tool
  suites are available (see http//www.kdnuggets.com
  /siftware.html)
• Field is more dominated by industry than by
  research institutions

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Making Sense of Data ---Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining

• 2005 Lectures
• Introduction to KDD
• Similarity Assessment
• Clustering
• Classification (very very brief)
• Association Rule Mining
• Spatial Databases and Spatial Data Mining
• Data Warehouses and OLAP

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Data Mining Confluence of Multiple Disciplines
Database Technology
Statistics
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Visualization
Information Science
Other Disciplines
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General KDD Steps
Data sources
Selected/Preprocessed data
Transformed data
Extracted information
Knowledge
Select/preprocess
Transform
Data mine
Interpret/Evaluate/Assimilate
Data preparation
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Popular KDD-Tasks

• Classification (try to learn how to classify)
• Clustering (finding groups of similar object)
• Estimation and Prediction (try to learn a
  function that predicts an th value of a
  continuous output variable based on a set of
  input variables)
• Bayesian and Dependency Networks
• Deviation and Fraud Detection
• Text Mining
• Web Mining
• Visualization
• Transformation and Data Cleaning

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KDD and Classical Data Analysis

• KDD is less focused than data analysis in that it
  looks for interesting patterns in data classical
  data analysis centers on analyzing particular
  relationships in data. The notion of
  interestingness is a key concept in KDD.
  Classical data analysis centers more on
  generating and testing pre-structured hypothesis
  with respect to a given sample set.
• KDD is more centered on analyzing large volumes
  of data (many fields, many tuples, many tables,
  ).
• In a nutshell the the KDD-process consists of
  preprocessing (generating a target data set),
  data mining (finding something interesting in the
  data set), and post processing (representing the
  found pattern in understandable form and
  evaluated their usefulness in a particular
  domain) classical data analysis is less
  concerned with the the preprocessing step.
• KDD involves the collaboration between multiple
  disciplines namely, statistics, AI,
  visualization, and databases.
• KDD employs non-traditional data analysis
  techniques (neural networks, association rules,
  decision trees, fuzzy logic, evolutionary
  computing,).

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Generating Models as an Example

• The goal of model generation (sometimes also
  called predictive data mining) is the creation,
  evaluation, and use of models to make predictions
  and to understand the relationships between
  various variables that are described in a data
  collection. Typical example application include
• generate a model to that predicts a students
  academic performance based on the applicants data
  such as the applicants past grades, test scores,
  past degree,
• generate a model that predicts (based on economic
  data) which stocks to sell, hold, and buy.
• generate a model to predict if a patient suffers
  from a particular disease based on a patients
  medical and other data.
• Model generation centers on deriving a function
  that can predict a variable using the values of
  other variables vf(a1,,an)
• Neural networks, decision trees, naïve Bayesian
  classifiers and networks, regression analysis and
  many other statistical techniques, fuzzy logic
  and neuro-fuzzy systems, association rules are
  the most popular model generation tools in the
  KDD area.
• All model generation tools and environments
  employ the basic train-evaluate-predict cycle.

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Why Do We Need so manyData Mining / Analysis
Techniques?

• No generally good technique exists.
• Different methods make different assumptions with
  respect to the data set to be analyzed (to be
  discussed on the next transparency)
• Cross fertilization between different methods is
  desirable and frequently helpful in obtaining a
  deeper understanding of the analyzed dataset.

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Motivation Necessity is the Mother of
Invention

• Data explosion problem
• Automated data collection tools and mature
  database technology lead to tremendous amounts of
  data stored in databases, data warehouses and
  other information repositories
• We are drowning in data, but starving for
  knowledge!
• Solution Data warehousing and data mining
• Data warehousing and on-line analytical
  processing
• Extraction of interesting knowledge (rules,
  regularities, patterns, constraints) from data
  in large databases

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Why Data Mining? Potential Applications

• Database analysis and decision support
• Market analysis and management
• target marketing, customer relation management,
  market basket analysis, cross selling, market
  segmentation
• Risk analysis and management
• Forecasting, customer retention, improved
  underwriting, quality control, competitive
  analysis
• Fraud detection and management
• Other Applications
• Text mining (news group, email, documents) and
  Web analysis.
• Intelligent query answering

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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

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Fraud Detection and Management

• Applications
• widely used in health care, retail, credit card
  services, telecommunications (phone card fraud),
  etc.
• Approach
• use historical data to build models of fraudulent
  behavior and use data mining to help identify
  similar instances
• Examples
• auto insurance detect a group of people who
  stage accidents to collect on insurance
• money laundering detect suspicious money
  transactions (US Treasury's Financial Crimes
  Enforcement Network)
• medical insurance detect professional patients
  and ring of doctors and ring of references

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Other Applications

• Sports
• IBM Advanced Scout analyzed NBA game statistics
  (shots blocked, assists, and fouls) to gain
  competitive advantage for New York Knicks and
  Miami Heat
• Astronomy
• JPL and the Palomar Observatory discovered 22
  quasars with the help of data mining
• Internet Web Surf-Aid
• IBM Surf-Aid applies data mining algorithms to
  Web access logs for market-related pages to
  discover customer preference and behavior pages,
  analyzing effectiveness of Web marketing,
  improving Web site organization, etc.

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Data Mining and Business Intelligence
Increasing potential to support business decisions
End User
Making Decisions
Business Analyst
Data Presentation
Visualization Techniques
Data Mining
Data Analyst
Information Discovery
Data Exploration
Statistical Analysis, Querying and Reporting
Data Warehouses / Data Marts
OLAP, MDA
DBA
Data Sources
Paper, Files, Information Providers, Database
Systems, OLTP
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Architecture of a Typical Data Mining System
Graphical user interface
Pattern evaluation
Data mining engine
Knowledge-base
Database or data warehouse server
Filtering
Data cleaning data integration
Data Warehouse
Databases
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Example Decision Tree Approach
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Decision Tree Approach2
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Decision Trees

• Example
• Conducted survey to see what customers were
  interested in new model car
• Want to select customers for advertising campaign

training set
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One Possibility
agelt30
Y
N
citysf
carvan
Y
Y
N
N
likely
unlikely
likely
unlikely
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Another Possibility
cartaurus
Y
N
citysf
agelt45
Y
Y
N
N
likely
unlikely
likely
unlikely
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Example Nearest Neighbor Approach
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Clustering
income
education
age
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Another Example Text

• Each document is a vector
• e.g., lt100110...gt contains words 1,4,5,...
• Clusters contain similar documents
• Useful for understanding, searching documents

sports
international news
business
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Issues

• Given desired number of clusters?
• Finding best clusters
• Are clusters semantically meaningful?
• e.g., yuppies cluster?
• Using clusters for disk storage

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Association Rule Mining
transaction id
customer id
products bought
sales records
market-basket data

• Example Rules
• age(X, 20..29) income(X, 20..29K) ?
  buys(X, PC) support 2, confidence 60
• buys(x, p2) buys(x,p5) ? bus(x,p8) 1, 85

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Characteristics and Assumptions of Popular Data
Mining/Analysis Techniques

• Distance based approaches (assume that a distance
  function with respect to the objects in the
  dataset exists) vs. order-based approaches (just
  use the ordering of values in their decision
  making 3gt2gt1 is indistinguishable from
  2.01gt2gt1.99)
• Approaches that make no assumptions / assume a
  particular distribution of the data in the
  underlying dataset.
• Differences in employed approximation techniques
• Rectangular vs. other approximation
• Linear vs. non-linear approximations
• Sensitivity to redundant attributes (variables)
• Sensitivity to irrelevant attributes
• Sensitivity to attributes of different degrees of
  importance
• Different Training Performance / Testing
  Performance
• What does the learnt function tell us about the
  analyzed data set? How difficult is it to
  understand the learnt function?
• Deterministic / non-deterministic approaches
• Stability of the obtained results

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Summary KDD

• KDD discovering interesting patterns from large
  amounts of data
• A natural evolution of database 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.
• Multi-disciplinary activity
• Important Issues KDD-methodologies and
  user-interactions, scalability, tool use and tool
  integration, preprocessing, interpretation of
  results, finding good parameter settings when
  running data mining tools,

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Where to Find References?

• Data mining and KDD (SIGKDD member CDROM)
• Conference proceedings KDD, and others, such as
  PKDD, PAKDD, etc.
• Journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Database field (SIGMOD member CD ROM)
• Conference proceedings ACM-SIGMOD, ACM-PODS,
  VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, DASFAA
• Journals ACM-TODS, J. ACM, IEEE-TKDE, JIIS, etc.
• AI and Machine Learning
• Conference proceedings Machine learning, AAAI,
  IJCAI, etc.
• Journals Machine Learning, Artificial
  Intelligence, etc.
• Statistics
• Conference proceedings Joint Stat. Meeting, etc.
• Journals Annals of statistics, etc.
• Visualization
• Conference proceedings CHI, etc.
• Journals IEEE Trans. visualization and computer
  graphics, etc.