3.4 Data Reduction
Imagine that you have selected data from the AllElectronics data warehouse for analysis. The data set will likely be huge! Complex data analysis and mining on huge amounts of data can take a long time, making such analysis impractical or infeasible.
Data reduction techniques can be applied to obtain a reduced representation of the data set that is much smaller in volume, yet closely maintains the integrity of the original data. That is, mining on the reduced data set should be more efficient yet produce the same (or almost the same) analytical results. In this section, we first present an overview of data reduction strategies, followed by a closer look at individual techniques.
3.4.1 Overview of Data Reduction Strategies
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