Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS

Chapter 5: Data Collection

5.1 Introduction

5.2 System Structure and Data Identification

5.2.1 Mind-Mapping

5.2.2 System Structure Knowledge Acquisition

5.2.3 Data Structure Identification

5.3 Data Definition

5.3.1 Data Sources

5.3.2 Metadata

5.4 Data Extraction

5.4.1 Internal Data Extraction

5.4.2 External Data Extraction

5.5 Data Alignment

5.5.1 Data Alignment to a Business Structure

5.5.2 Data Alignment to Time

5.6 Data Collection Automation for Model Deployment

5.6.1 Differences between Data Collection for Model Development and Deployment

5.6.2 Data Collection Automation for Model Deployment

5.1 Introduction

The importance of data collection is well understood by modelers, and even praised in a popular data mining joke that goes, “In God ...