... Transformations and Difficulties—Variables, Data, and Information Much of this discussion has pivoted on information—information in a data set, information content of various scales, and transforming ... their limited data capacity and inability to handle certain types of operations needed in data preparation, data surveying, and data modeling For exploring small data sets, and for displaying ... the data set for mining—to best expose the information contained in it to the mining tool Indeed, the whole purpose for mining data is to transform the information content of a data set that...