Database Marketing, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery

Knowledge Discovery Process Models
– Preparation of the Data
It concerns deciding which data will be used as input for DM methods in
the next step. It involves sampling, running correlation and significance
tests, data cleaning that includes checking completeness of data
records, removing or correcting for noise and missing values, etc. The
cleaned data may be further processed by feature selection and
extraction algorithms (to reduce dimensionality), by derivation of new
attributes (say by discretization), and by summarization of data (data
granularization). The end results are data that meet specific input
requirements for the selected in step 1 DM tools.
– Data Mining
It involves using various DM methods to derive knowledge from
preprocessed data.
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