DATA MINING

...is nothing else than torturing the data until it confesses…and if you torture it enough, you can get it to confess to anything (Fred Menger)

Data Mining 101
    If you are a beginner in data mining and want to become at least familiar with the main concepts and terminologies, maybe the first step would be to acquire a clear bird-eye view about the whole domain - definition, inception, classification, influences, trends - but without diving into too deep and scholastic details. And, of course, you do that by searching on Internet and skimming whatever books you have at hand. You might say that one day would be more than enough to get an overall understanding about this domain. But you don't have a clue about the trouble you're getting into. These are some of the questions that I'm sure you'll start asking yourself: How is data mining related to predictive analysis? How is it related to knowledge discovery? What about data mining vs machine learning and artificial intelligence? What is the difference between predictive/descriptive and supervized/unsupervized? Can we compare these 2 classifications first of all? And this is just the beginning...Read on...

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A classification of the data mining techniques can never be complete. But I am going to try to build a backbone here and then add to it as I go. Data Mining Classification Read more about this classification.
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Data Mining 101
       by Radu Lovin
Part 1 - Introduction to Data Mining

Part 2 - Data Mining Techniques

Part 3 - Mining Frequent Patterns (Maximal and Closed Frequent Itemsets)

Part 4 - Association Rules

Part 5 - Algorithms for Mining Frequent Itemsets

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