Data Mining: Introduction

Lecture Notes for Chapter 1

Slides by Tan, Steinbach, Kumar adapted by Michael Hahsler

Why Mine Data? Commercial Viewpoint

Lots of data is being

collected and warehoused
- Web data, e-commerce
- purchases at department/
grocery stores
- Bank/Credit Card
transactions
Computers have become cheaper and more
powerful
Competitive Pressure is Strong
- Provide better, customized services for an edge (e.g. in
Customer Relationship Management)
Why Mine Data? Scientific Viewpoint
Data collected and stored at
enormous speeds (GB/hour)
- remote sensors on a satellite
- telescopes scanning the skies
- microarrays generating gene
expression data
- scientific simulations
generating terabytes of data
Traditional techniques infeasible
for raw data
Data mining may help scientists
- in classifying and segmenting data
- in Hypothesis Formation
Mining Large Data Sets - Motivation
There is often information hidden in the data that is
not readily evident
Human analysts may take weeks to discover useful
information
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Much of the data is never analyzed at allTotal new disk (TB) since 1995
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The Data Gap

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Number of
analysts
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From: R. Grossman, C. Kamath, V. Kumar, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications
What is Data Mining?
Many Definitions
Non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and
potentially useful information from data
Exploration & analysis, by automatic or semi-automatic means, of
large quantities of data in order to discover meaningful patterns

What is not Data Mining? What is Data Mining?

Look up phone number in Certain names are more

prevalent in certain US
phone directory
locations (OBrien,
ORurke, OReilly in
Boston area)
Query a Web search engine
for information about Group together similar
Amazon documents returned by
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) Process

Noise/outliers Decide on task & algorithm

Missing data Performance?
Understand domain Data/dim. reduction
Finding useful features
Origins of Data Mining

Draws ideas from machine learning/AI, pattern

recognition, statistics, and database systems

Traditional Techniques Statistics

Machine Learning/AI
&
may be unsuitable due to Pattern Recognition
Enormity of data Data
Mining
High dimensionality
of data
Heterogeneous, Database
systems
distributed nature & CS
of data
Data Mining Tasks

Description Methods
- Find human-interpretable patterns that
describe the data.

Prediction Methods
Use some variables to predict unknown or
future values of other variables.

From [Fayyad, et.al.] Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1996
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Classification: Definition
Given a collection of records (training set )
- Each record contains a set of attributes, one of the
attributes is the class.

Find a model for class attribute as a function of

the values of other attributes.

Goal: previously unseen records should be

assigned a class as accurately as possible.
- A test set is used to determine the accuracy of the
model. Usually, the given data set is divided into
training and test sets, with training set used to build
the model and test set used to validate it.
Classification Example

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3 No Single 70K No No Single 40K ?
4 Yes Married 120K No No Married 80K ?
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7 Yes Divorced 220K No
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Training
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Classification: Application 1
Direct Marketing

Goal: Reduce cost of mailing by targeting a set of

consumers likely to buy a new cell-phone product.
Approach:
Use the data for a similar product introduced before.
We know which customers decided to buy and which decided
otherwise. This {buy, dont buy} decision forms the class
attribute.
Collect various demographic, lifestyle, and company-interaction
related information about all such customers.
Type of business, where they stay, how much they earn, etc.
Use this information as input attributes to learn a classifier
model.
From [Berry & Linoff] Data Mining Techniques, 1997
Classification: Application 2
Fraud Detection

Goal: Predict fraudulent cases in credit card

transactions.
Approach:
Use credit card transactions and the information on its
account-holder as attributes.
When and where does a customer buy, what does he buy, how often
he pays on time, etc
Label past transactions as fraud or fair transactions. This forms
the class attribute.
Learn a model for the class of the transactions.
Use this model to detect fraud by observing credit card
transactions on an account.
Classification: Application 3
Customer Attrition/Churn

Goal: To predict whether a customer is likely to

be lost to a competitor.
Approach:
Use detailed record of transactions with each of the
past and present customers, to find attributes.
How often the customer calls, where he calls, what time-of-the
day he calls most, his financial status, marital status, etc.
Label the customers as loyal or disloyal.
Find a model for loyalty.
From [Berry & Linoff] Data Mining Techniques, 1997
Classification: Application 4
Sky Survey Cataloging

Goal: To predict class (star or galaxy) of sky objects, especially

visually faint ones, based on the telescopic survey images (from
Palomar Observatory).
- 3000 images with 23,040 x 23,040 pixels per image.

Approach:
- Segment the image.
- Measure image attributes (features)
- 40 of them per object.
- Model the class based on these
features.
- Success Story: Could find 16
new high red-shift quasars, some
of the farthest objects that are
difficult to find!

From [Fayyad, et.al.] Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1996
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Clustering Definition

Given a set of data points, each having a set of

attributes, and a similarity measure among them,
find clusters such that
- Data points in one cluster are more similar to one
another.
- Data points in separate clusters are less similar to
one another.

Proximity Measures:
- Euclidean Distance if attributes are continuous.
- Other Problem-specific Measures.
 Illustrating Clustering

Euclidean Distance Based Clustering in 3-D space.

Intracluster distances Intercluster distances

are minimized are maximized
Clustering: Application 1

Market Segmentation

Goal: subdivide a market into distinct subsets of

customers where any subset may conceivably be
selected as a market target to be reached with a distinct
marketing mix.
Approach:
Collect different attributes of customers based on their
geographical and lifestyle related information.
Find clusters of similar customers.
Measure the clustering quality by observing buying patterns of
customers in same cluster vs. those from different clusters.
Clustering: Application 2

Document Clustering

Goal: To find groups of documents that are similar to each

other based on the important terms appearing in them.
Approach: To identify frequently occurring terms in each
document. Form a similarity measure based on the
frequencies of different terms. Use it to cluster.
Gain: Information Retrieval can utilize the clusters to
relate a new document or search term to clustered
documents.
Illustrating Document Clustering

Clustering Points: 3204 Articles of Los Angeles Times.

Similarity Measure: How many words are common in
these documents (after some word filtering).

Category Total Correctly

Articles Placed
Financial 555 364
Foreign 341 260
National 273 36
Metro 943 746
Sports 738 573
Entertainment 354 278
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Association Rule Discovery: Definition

Given a set of records each of which contain some

number of items from a given collection;
Produce dependency rules which will predict
occurrence of an item based on occurrences of other
items.

TI Items
D Discovered Rules:
1 Bread, Coke, Milk {Milk} {Coke}
2 Beer, Bread {Diaper, Milk} {Beer}
3 Beer, Coke, Diaper, Milk
4 Beer, Bread, Diaper, Milk
5 Coke, Diaper, Milk
Association Rule Discovery: Application 1

Marketing and Sales Promotion

Let the rule discovered be

{Bagels, } {Potato Chips}
Potato Chips as consequent: Can be used to
determine what should be done to boost its sales.
Bagels in the antecedent: Can be used to see which
products would be affected if the store discontinues
selling bagels.
Bagels in antecedent and Potato chips in
consequent: Can be used to see what products should
be sold with Bagels to promote sale of Potato chips!
Association Rule Discovery: Application 2
Supermarket shelf
management

Goal: To identify items

that are bought together by
sufficiently many customers.
Approach: Process the point-of-sale data collected with
barcode scanners to find dependencies among items.
A classic rule:
If a customer buys diaper and milk, then he is very likely to buy
beer.
So, dont be surprised if you find six-packs stacked next to
diapers!
Association Rule Discovery: Application 3

Inventory Management

Goal: A consumer appliance repair company wants to

anticipate the nature of repairs on its consumer products
and keep the service vehicles equipped with right parts to
reduce on number of visits to consumer households.
Approach: Process the data on tools and parts required
in previous repairs at different consumer locations and
discover the co-occurrence patterns.
 Sequential Pattern Discovery: Definition

Given is a set of objects, with each object associated with its own
timeline of events, find rules that predict strong sequential
dependencies among different events.

(A B) (C) (D E)

Rules are formed by first disovering patterns. Event occurrences in the

patterns are governed by timing constraints.

(A B) (C) (D E)
<= xg >ng <= ws

<= ms
Sequential Pattern Discovery: Examples

In telecommunications alarm logs

(Inverter_Problem Excessive_Line_Current) (Rectifier_Alarm)

(Fire_Alarm)

In point-of-sale transaction sequences

Computer Bookstore:
(Intro_To_Visual_C) (C++_Primer)
(Perl_for_dummies,Tcl_Tk)
Athletic Apparel Store:
(Shoes) (Racket, Racketball) (Sports_Jacket)
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Deviation/Anomaly Detection
Detect significant deviations from normal behavior
Applications:
Credit Card Fraud Detection

Network Intrusion
Detection

Typical network traffic at University

level may reach over 100 million
connections per day
Challenges of Data Mining

Scalability
Dimensionality
Complex and Heterogeneous Data
Data Quality
Data Ownership and Distribution
Privacy Preservation
Streaming Data