Mining Your Own Business in Telecoms Using DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data

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Figure 3-3 From applications to algorithms

Because there is such a bewildering range of things that can be done using data

mining, our objective is to concentrate on some of the techniques that apply to

your specific industry sector. To assist you in the process of understanding how

to decide what techniques are applicable and how to set about the whole process

of mining you own business, we have developed a generic data mining method.

The objective is to define a sequence of steps that can be followed for all data

mining activities, and in subsequent chapters we show how the method is applied

to add ...