Descriptive Data Mining by David L. Olson (auth.)

By David L. Olson (auth.)

This e-book deals an summary of data administration. It begins with an creation to the topic, putting descriptive types within the context of the final box in addition to in the extra particular box of knowledge mining research. bankruptcy 2 covers facts visualization, together with instructions for getting access to R open resource software program (described via Rattle). either R and Rattle are unfastened to scholars. bankruptcy three then describes industry basket research, evaluating it with extra complex versions, and addresses the idea that of carry. therefore, bankruptcy four describes smarketing RFM types and compares it with extra complicated predictive types. subsequent, bankruptcy five describes organization ideas, together with the APriori set of rules and offers software program aid from R. bankruptcy 6 covers cluster research, together with software program aid from R (Rattle), KNIME, and WEKA, all of that are open resource. bankruptcy 7 is going directly to describe hyperlink research, social community metrics, and open resource NodeXL software program, and demonstrates hyperlink research software utilizing PolyAnalyst output. bankruptcy eight concludes the monograph.
Using business-related information to illustrate versions, this descriptive e-book explains how tools paintings with a few citations, yet with out particular references. the knowledge units and software program chosen are largely to be had and will simply be accessed.

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1 Lift for equalized data groups ĐƵŵƉƌŽƉ ƋƵĂů response. The basic objective of lift analysis in marketing is to identify those customers whose decisions will be influenced by marketing in a positive way. Target customers are identified as the small subset of people with marginally higher probability of purchasing. We are probably more interested in profit, however. Lift itself does not consider profitability. We can identify the most profitable policy, but what really needs to be done is identify the portion of the population to send promotional materials to.

The thirty groupings demonstrated above is a good workable, actionable number. Too few product groupings provide no benefit, while too many makes it impossible to make sense of the analysis. Market-basket analysis is a technique that is good for undirected, or unstructured, problems with well-defined items. It is very suitable for cash register data. References Agrawal R, Imielinski T, Swami A (1993) Database mining: a performance perspective. IEEE Trans Knowl Data Eng 5(6):914–925 Aguinis H, Forcum LE, Joo H (2013) Using market basket analysis in management research.

The insurance industry has been a major user of link analysis to detect fraud rings. In the medical field, combinations of symptoms can be analyzed to gain deeper understanding of a patient’s condition. Market basket analysis has limits of course. However, knowing which products are associated doesn’t answer all retailer questions. Cross-sales strategies assume that products that appear together are complements. Some research has found that market basket analysis may identify as many substitutes as it does complements (Vindevogel et al.

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