MIST 320 Exam 3 (Chapter 5) McLaughin

Data mining process

A manifestation of best practices A systematic way to conduct DM projects Different groups has different versions Most common standard processes: CRISP-DM (Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) SEMMA (Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, and Assess) KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases)

Association rule mining cont...

A representative applications of association rule mining include In business: cross-marketing, cross-selling, store design, catalog design, e-commerce site design, optimization of online advertising, product pricing, and sales/promotion configuration In medicine: relationships between symptoms and illnesses; diagnosis and patient characteristics and treatments (to be used in medical DSS); and genes and their functions (to be used in genomics projects) ...

Association Rule Mining

A very popular DM method in business Finds interesting relationships (affinities) between variables (items or events) Part of machine learning family Employs unsupervised learning There is no output variable Also known as market basket analysis Often used as an example to describe DM to ordinary people, such as the famous "relationship between diapers and beers!"

Assoc Rule mining cont...

Algorithms are available for generating association rules Apriori Eclat FP-Growth + Derivatives and hybrids of the three The algorithms help identify the frequent item sets, which are, then converted to association rules

Decision tree cont......

Alternative splitting criteria Gini index determines the purity of a specific class as a result of a decision to branch along a particular attribute/value Used in CART Information gain uses entropy to measure the extent of uncertainty or randomness of a particular attribute/value split Used in ID3, C4.5, C5 Chi-square statistics (used in CHAID)

Cluster analysis for data mining conttt

Analysis methods Statistical methods (including both hierarchical and nonhierarchical), such as k-means, k-modes, and so on. Neural networks (adaptive resonance theory [ART], self-organizing map [SOM]) Fuzzy logic (e.g., fuzzy c-means algorithm) Genetic algorithms

Assoc rule mining contttt

Apriori Algorithm Finds subsets that are common to at least a minimum number of the itemsets Uses a bottom-up approach frequent subsets are extended one item at a time (the size of frequent subsets increases from one-item subsets to two-item subsets, then three-item subsets, and so on), and groups of candidates at each level are tested against the data for minimum support. (see the figure) --

Assoc. rule mining cont

Are all association rules interesting and useful? A Generic Rule: X Y [S%, C%] X, Y: products and/or services X: Left-hand-side (LHS) Y: Right-hand-side (RHS) S: Support: how often X and Y go together C: Confidence: how often Y go together with the X Example: {Laptop Computer, Antivirus Software} {Extended Service Plan} [30%, 70%]

Decision Tree Analysis

Brief video explaining Decision Tree Analysis in Data Mining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBebD49pKFA Decision Tree Analysis in R https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFJIQ0_2ijg Decision Tree Learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning

Data mining app cont...

Brokerage and Securities Trading Predict changes on certain bond prices Forecast the direction of stock fluctuations Assess the effect of events on market movements Identify and prevent fraudulent activities in trading Insurance Forecast claim costs for better business planning Determine optimal rate plans Optimize marketing to specific customers Identify and prevent fraudulent claim activities

Cluster Analysis for Data Mining cont

Clustering results may be used to Identify natural groupings of customers Identify rules for assigning new cases to classes for targeting/diagnostic purposes Provide characterization, definition, labeling of populations Decrease the size and complexity of problems for other data mining methods Identify outliers in a specific domain (e.g., rare-event detection)

Data Mining Software

Commercial IBM SPSS Modeler (formerly Clementine) SAS - Enterprise Miner IBM - Intelligent Miner StatSoft - Statistica Data Miner ... many more Free and/or Open Source R RapidMiner Weka...

data mining app cont...

Computer hardware and software Science and engineering Government and defense Homeland security and law enforcement Travel industry Healthcare Medicine Entertainment industry Sports Etc.

Data mining applications

Customer Relationship Management Maximize return on marketing campaigns Improve customer retention (churn analysis) Maximize customer value (cross-, up-selling) Identify and treat most valued customers Banking & Other Financial Automate the loan application process Detecting fraudulent transactions Maximize customer value (cross-, up-selling) Optimizing cash reserves with forecasting

What does DM do, how does it work?

DM extract patterns from data Pattern? A mathematical (numeric and/or symbolic) relationship among data items Types of patterns Association Prediction Cluster (segmentation) Sequential (or time series) relationships

Decision tree cont.

DT algorithms mainly differ on Splitting criteria Which variable, what value, etc. Stopping criteria When to stop building the tree Pruning (generalization method) Pre-pruning versus post-pruning Most popular DT algorithms include ID3, C4.5, C5; CART; CHAID; M5

Data Mining Myths

Data mining ... provides instant solutions/predictions is not yet viable for business applications requires a separate, dedicated database can only be done by those with advanced degrees is only for large firms that have lots of customer data is another name for the good-old statistics

Data in data mining

Data: a collection of facts usually obtained as the result of experiences, observations, or experiments. Data may consist of numbers, words, images, ... Data: lowest level of abstraction (from which information and knowledge are derived).

Classification Techniques

Decision tree analysis Statistical analysis Neural networks Support vector machines Case-based reasoning Bayesian classifiers Genetic algorithms Rough sets

Decision Trees

Employs the divide and conquer method Recursively divides a training set until each division consists of examples from one class Create a root node and assign all of the training data to it. Select the best splitting attribute. Add a branch to the root node for each value of the split. Split the data into mutually exclusive subsets along the lines of the specific split. Repeat the steps 2 and 3 for each and every leaf node until the stopping criteria is reached.

Cluster analysis for DM cont

How many clusters? There is not a "truly optimal" way to calculate it Heuristics are often used Most cluster analysis methods involve the use of a distance measure to calculate the closeness between pairs of items. Euclidian versus Manhattan/Rectilinear distance

Accuracy of Classification Models

In classification problems, the primary source for accuracy estimation is the confusion matrix

Association Rule Mining Cont

Input: the simple point-of-sale transaction data Output: Most frequent affinities among items Example: according to the transaction data... "Customer who bought a lap-top computer and a virus protection software, also bought extended service plan 70 percent of the time." How do you use such a pattern/knowledge? Put the items next to each other Promote the items as a package Place items far apart from each other!

Data Mining Methods: Classification

Most frequently used DM method Part of the machine-learning family Employ supervised learning Learn from past data, classify new data The output variable is categorical (nominal or ordinal) in nature Classification versus regression? Classification versus clustering?

Assessment Methods for Classification

Predictive accuracy Hit rate Speed Model building; predicting Robustness Scalability Interpretability Transparency, explainability

Keywords Data mining

Process, nontrivial, valid, novel, potentially useful, understandable

Data Preparation - A Critical DM Task

Real world data Data consolidation (Collect, select, integrate data) Data cleaning ( Impute missing values, reduce noise in data, eliminate inconsistencies) Data transformation ( Normalize data, discretize/aggregate data, Construct new attributes) Data reduction ( Reduce # of variables, Reduce # of cases, Balance skewed data) Well-Formed Data

Data mining applications Cont...

Retailing and Logistics Optimize inventory levels at different locations Improve the store layout and sales promotions Optimize logistics by predicting seasonal effects Minimize losses due to limited shelf life Manufacturing and Maintenance Predict/prevent machinery failures Identify anomalies in production systems to optimize the use manufacturing capacity Discover novel patterns to improve product quality

Data Mining Process: SEMMA

Sample ( Generate a representative sample of data) Explore ( visualization and basic description of the data) Modify ( select variables, transforms variable representations) Model ( use variety of statistical and machine learning models) Assess (evaluate the accuracy and Usefulness of the models)

Common Data Mining Blunders

Selecting the wrong problem for data mining Ignoring what your sponsor thinks data mining is and what it really can/cannot do Not leaving insufficient time for data acquisition, selection and preparation Looking only at aggregated results and not at individual records/predictions Being sloppy about keeping track of the data mining procedure and results ...more in the book

Estimation Methodologies for Classification

Simple split (or holdout or test sample estimation) Split the data into 2 mutually exclusive sets training (~70%) and testing (30%) For ANN, the data is split into three sub-sets (training [~60%], validation [~20%], testing [~20%])

Data mining Characteristics & Objectives

Source of data for DM is often a consolidated data warehouse (not always!). DM environment is usually a client-server or a Web-based information systems architecture. Data is the most critical ingredient for DM which may include soft/unstructured data. The miner is often an end user Striking it rich requires creative thinking Data mining tools' capabilities and ease of use are essential (Web, Parallel processing, etc.)

Data Mining Process: CRISP-DM

Step 1: Business Understanding Step 2: Data Understanding Step 3: Data Preparation (!) Step 4: Model Building Step 5: Testing and Evaluation Step 6: Deployment The process is highly repetitive and experimental (DM: art versus science?) Step 1,2,3 accounts for 85% of project time

Data Mining

The nontrivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately understandable patterns in data stored in structured databases.

Data mining tasks

Time-series forecasting Part of sequence or link analysis? Visualization Another data mining task? Types of DM Hypothesis-driven data mining Discovery-driven data mining

Cluster Analysis for Data Mining

Used for automatic identification of natural groupings of things Part of the machine-learning family Employ unsupervised learning Learns the clusters of things from past data, then assigns new instances There is not an output variable Also known as segmentation

Estimation Methodologies for Classification

k-Fold Cross Validation (rotation estimation) Split the data into k mutually exclusive subsets Use each subset as testing while using the rest of the subsets as training Repeat the experimentation for k times Aggregate the test results for true estimation of prediction accuracy training Other estimation methodologies Leave-one-out, bootstrapping, jackknifing Area under the ROC curve

Cluster Analysis for Data Mining cont......

k-Means Clustering Algorithm k : pre-determined number of clusters Algorithm (Step 0: determine value of k) Step 1: Randomly generate k random points as initial cluster centers. Step 2: Assign each point to the nearest cluster center. Step 3: Re-compute the new cluster centers. Repetition step: Repeat steps 3 and 4 until some convergence criterion is met (usually that the assignment of points to clusters becomes stable).