How do we do data mining?
Since data mining is traditionally seen as one of the steps in the overall KDD process, and increasingly in the data science process, in this section we get acquainted with the steps involved. There are several popular methodologies for doing the work of data mining. Here we highlight four methodologies: Two that are taken from textbook introductions to the theory of data mining, one taken from a very practical process used in industry, and one designed for teaching beginners.
The Fayyad et al. KDD process
One early version of the knowledge discovery and data mining process was defined by Usama Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Padhraic Smyth in a 1996 article (The KDD Process for Extracting Useful Knowledge from Volumes ...
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