... Foundations of DataMining 665 11. 3.2 Statistical DataMining 666 11. 3.3 Visual and Audio DataMining 667 11. 3.4 DataMiningand Collaborative Filtering 670 11. 4 Social Impacts of DataMining 675 11. 4.1 ... Impacts of DataMining 675 11. 4.1 Ubiquitous and Invisible DataMining 675 11. 4.2 Data Mining, Privacy, andData Security 678 11. 5 Trends in DataMining 681 11. 6 Summary 684Exercises 685Bibliographic ... read-ing are organized per chapter. Links to dataminingdata sets and software. We will provide a set of links to data miningdata sets and sites containing interesting datamining software pack-ages,...
... 972.7Summary Data preprocessing is an important issue for both data warehousing anddata mining, as real-world data tend to be incomplete, noisy, and inconsistent. Data preprocessingincludes data cleaning, ... approximation of the original data. PCA is computationally inexpensive, can be applied to ordered and unorderedattributes, and can handle sparse dataand skewed data. Multidimensional data of more than ... 2.3 Data Cleaning 652.3.3 Data Cleaning as a ProcessMissing values, noise, and inconsistencies contribute to inaccurate data. So far, we havelooked at techniques for handling missing data and...
... 152 Chapter 3 Data Warehouse and OLAP Technology: An Overview data by OLAP operations), anddatamining (which supports knowledge discovery).OLAP-based datamining is referred to as OLAP mining, ... processing, and data mining. We also introduce on-line analytical mining (OLAM), a powerful paradigm thatintegrates OLAP with datamining technology.3.5.1 Data Warehouse Usage Data warehouses anddata ... Warehouse and OLAP Technology: An Overview3.5From Data Warehousing to Data Mining “How do data warehousing and OLAP relate to data mining? ” In this section, we study theusage of data warehousing...
... Empowerment begins with knowledge and is expanded by targetedtraining, which includes understanding the nature and relevance of financial/eco-nomic data, and is reinforced by a climate of trust.Decision ... company, and works inclose collaboration with financial and other staff persons to make sure that rel-evant data are at hand for sound analysis and judgments. There’s sufficient un-derstanding ... are and how to enhance them, and understands thebusiness model and its parts sufficiently to have a positive impact throughcarefully analyzed and executed decisions. Parallel to this understanding...
... company as a whole (Chapters 9 and 10), and finally, shareholder value creation concepts, such as total shareholder return,economic value added, and so forth (Chapters 11and 12). As we’ll see, ... economic value and long-term viability. In fact, creation of shareholdervalue and cash flow patterns—achieved and expected—are inseparable concepts. As we take up the analytical conceptsand tools ... any economic analysis. In Chapter 3, we’ll discuss the formal ways oftracking and analyzing overall resource flow patterns and their cash impact. InChapters 7, 8, 11, and 12 we’ll show how the...
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