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Course Description
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Topics:
Introduction
Getting to Know Your Data
Data Preprocessing
Data Warehouse and OLAP Technology: An Introduction
Advanced Data Cube Technology
Mining Frequent Patterns & Association: Basic Concepts
Mining Frequent Patterns & Association: Advanced
Methods
Classification: Basic Concepts
Classification: Advanced Methods
Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts
Cluster Analysis: Advanced Methods
Outlier Analysis:
2018/1/30 Course Introduction 2
Important Sites
Instructor
Lei Chen
http://www.cse.ust.hk/~leichen
Course Web Site
http://www.cse.ust.hk/course/COMP4331/index.html
TA:
Mr. Shimin Di
Mr. Zengqian Yan
Assignment Hand-in: online
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Why Data Mining?
The Explosive Growth of Data: from terabytes to petabytes
Data collection and data availability
Automated data collection tools, database systems, Web,
computerized society
Major sources of abundant data
Business: Web, e-commerce, transactions, stocks, …
Science: Remote sensing, bioinformatics, scientific simulation, …
Society and everyone: news, digital cameras, YouTube
We are drowning in data, but starving for knowledge!
“Necessity is the mother of invention”—Data mining—Automated
analysis of massive data sets
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Evolution of Sciences: New Data Science Era
Before 1600: Empirical science
1600-1950s: Theoretical science
Each discipline has grown a theoretical component. Theoretical models often
motivate experiments and generalize our understanding.
1950s-1990s: Computational science
Over the last 50 years, most disciplines have grown a third, computational branch
(e.g. empirical, theoretical, and computational ecology, or physics, or linguistics.)
Computational Science traditionally meant simulation. It grew out of our inability to
find closed-form solutions for complex mathematical models.
1990-now: Data science
The flood of data from new scientific instruments and simulations
The ability to economically store and manage petabytes of data online
The Internet and computing Grid that makes all these archives universally accessible
Scientific info. management, acquisition, organization, query, and visualization tasks
scale almost linearly with data volumes
Data mining is a major new challenge!
Jim Gray and Alex Szalay, The World Wide Telescope: An Archetype for Online Science,
Comm. ACM, 45(11): 50-54, Nov. 2002
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Why Data Mining?
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What Is Data Mining?
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Knowledge Discovery (KDD) Process
This is a view from typical
database systems and data
Pattern Evaluation
warehousing communities
Data mining plays an essential
role in the knowledge discovery
process Data Mining
Task-relevant Data
Data Cleaning
Data Integration
Databases
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Example: A Web Mining Framework
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Data Mining in Business Intelligence
Increasing potential
to support
business decisions End User
Decision
Making
Data Exploration
Statistical Summary, Querying, and Reporting
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Which View Do You Prefer?
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Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
Data to be mined
Database data (extended-relational, object-oriented, heterogeneous,
Techniques utilized
Data-intensive, data warehouse (OLAP), machine learning, statistics,
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Data Mining: On What Kinds of Data?
Database-oriented data sets and applications
Relational database, data warehouse, transactional database
Advanced data sets and advanced applications
Data streams and sensor data
Time-series data, temporal data, sequence data (incl. bio-sequences)
Structure data, graphs, social networks and multi-linked data
Object-relational databases
Heterogeneous databases and legacy databases
Spatial data and spatiotemporal data
Multimedia database
Text databases
The World-Wide Web
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Why Data Mining?
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Data Mining Function: (1) Generalization
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Data Mining Function: (2) Association and
Correlation Analysis
Frequent patterns (or frequent itemsets)
What items are frequently purchased together in your
Walmart?
Association, correlation vs. causality
A typical association rule
Diaper Beer [0.5%, 75%] (support, confidence)
Are strongly associated items also strongly correlated?
How to mine such patterns and rules efficiently in large
datasets?
How to use such patterns for classification, clustering,
and other applications?
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Data Mining Function: (3) Classification
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Data Mining Function: (4) Cluster Analysis
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Data Mining Function: (5) Outlier Analysis
Outlier analysis
Outlier: A data object that does not comply with the general
behavior of the data
Noise or exception? ― One person’s garbage could be another
person’s treasure
Methods: by product of clustering or regression analysis, …
Useful in fraud detection, rare events analysis
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Time and Ordering: Sequential Pattern,
Trend and Evolution Analysis
Sequence, trend and evolution analysis
Trend, time-series, and deviation analysis: e.g.,
memory cards
Periodicity analysis
Similarity-based analysis
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Structure and Network Analysis
Graph mining
Finding frequent subgraphs (e.g., chemical compounds), trees
family, classmates, …
Links carry a lot of semantic information: Link mining
Web mining
Web is a big information network: from PageRank to Google
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Evaluation of Knowledge
Are all mined knowledge interesting?
One can mine tremendous amount of “patterns” and knowledge
Some may fit only certain dimension space (time, location, …)
Some may not be representative, may be transient, …
Evaluation of mined knowledge → directly mine only
interesting knowledge?
Descriptive vs. predictive
Coverage
Typicality vs. novelty
Accuracy
Timeliness
…
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Why Data Mining?
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Data Mining: Confluence of Multiple Disciplines
Applications Visualization
Data Mining
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Why Confluence of Multiple Disciplines?
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Applications of Data Mining
Web page analysis: from web page classification, clustering to
PageRank & HITS algorithms
Collaborative analysis & recommender systems
Basket data analysis to targeted marketing
Biological and medical data analysis: classification, cluster analysis
(microarray data analysis), biological sequence analysis, biological
network analysis
Data mining and software engineering (e.g., IEEE Computer, Aug.
2009 issue)
From major dedicated data mining systems/tools (e.g., SAS, MS SQL-
Server Analysis Manager, Oracle Data Mining Tools) to invisible data
mining
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Why Data Mining?
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Major Issues in Data Mining (1)
Mining Methodology
Mining various and new kinds of knowledge
Mining knowledge in multi-dimensional space
Data mining: An interdisciplinary effort
Boosting the power of discovery in a networked environment
Handling noise, uncertainty, and incompleteness of data
Pattern evaluation and pattern- or constraint-guided mining
User Interaction
Interactive mining
Incorporation of background knowledge
Presentation and visualization of data mining results
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Major Issues in Data Mining (2)
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Why Data Mining?
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A Brief History of Data Mining Society
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Where to Find References? DBLP, CiteSeer, Google
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Summary
Data mining: Discovering interesting patterns and knowledge from
massive amount of data
A natural evolution of science and information 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 data
Data mining functionalities: characterization, discrimination,
association, classification, clustering, trend and outlier analysis, etc.
Data mining technologies and applications
Major issues in data mining
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