44 Mining Your Own Business in Telecoms Using DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data
company and the usage of the data proposed for data mining. Normally, the
data mining expert is not the data administrator, who is responsible for the all
data repositories. In this case the interaction with the database owner and the
mining expert must be guaranteed.
Understanding the data preparation: Data preparation needs a lot of expertise
in creating new data input (for example, SQL programming skill) and a good
understanding of the given raw data and their content. An excellent data
miner may not be successful if he/she lacks expertise in the business field
under discussion.
Understanding the algorithms: Using algorithms means to be able to adapt
the setting ...