Homework 1

1. (5 pts) List two reasons why Traditional data analysis tools and techniques are not enough for Extracting useful information for today’s Data.

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b. ___________________________________________________________

2. (5 pts) Give one example from Chapter 1 showing how the field of Molecular biology understood the structure and function of genes

a. Before data mining

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b. And using Data mining

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3. (5 pts) Give two examples to show how Information retrieval techniques are different from Data

mining:

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b. ___________________________________________________________

4. (5 pts) KDD is the Process of converting raw data into useful information using transformation steps. List those 4 steps below:

a. ___________________________________________________________

b. ___________________________________________________________

c. ___________________________________________________________

d. ___________________________________________________________

5. (5 pts) List the four Core data mining tasks that is covered in Chapter 1:

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b. ___________________________________________________________

c. ___________________________________________________________

d. ___________________________________________________________

6. (5 pts) How Regression is different than Classification in Predictive modeling?

a. Regression:

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b. Classification:

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