Data Mining Flashcard

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What is the main goal of predictive tasks in data mining?

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To predict unknown or future values

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Example of classification in predictive modeling: Predicting house prices, Spam detection, Market Basket Analysis, Customer segmentation

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Spam detection

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What type of predictive modeling predicts continuous values?

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Regression

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What does association analysis aim to discover?

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Interesting relationships between variables

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Example of cluster analysis: Spam detection, Customer segmentation, Predicting house prices, Market Basket Analysis

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Customer segmentation

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What does anomaly detection identify?

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Rare or unusual data records

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Which challenge involves data coming from multiple sources?

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Data integration

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What is the purpose of the data mining engine?

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To perform data mining tasks

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What is the role of the pattern evaluation module?

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To give interesting patterns from data

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Which of the following is NOT a challenge in data mining?

• Noisy and incomplete data
• High dimensionality
• Data visualization
• Privacy and security

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Data visualization