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Applied Data Mining
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Applied Data Mining

by Guandong Xu, Yu Zong, Zhenglu Yang
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
13h 54m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Applied Data Mining
CHAPTER 5
Classification
Two common data mining techniques for fi nding hidden patterns in
data are clustering and classifi cation analysis. Although classifi cation
and clustering are often mentioned in the same breath, they are different
analytical approaches. Imaging a database of customer records, where each
record represents a customer’s attributes. These can include identifi ers such
as name and address, demographic information such as gender and age,
and fi nancial attributes such as income and revenue spent. Clustering is an
automated process to group related records together. Related records are
grouped together on the basis of having similar ...
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