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Data Mining Answer Key

The document provides answers to various data mining exam questions, covering topics such as data mining definitions, interestingness, data preprocessing categories, technical metadata, classifier scalability, Support Vector Machines, lazy learning, regression, continuous ordinal variables, clustering methods, feature descriptors, and text mining. Each answer succinctly explains the concepts and their relevance in the field of data mining. This serves as a comprehensive guide for understanding fundamental data mining principles.

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Data Mining Answer Key

The document provides answers to various data mining exam questions, covering topics such as data mining definitions, interestingness, data preprocessing categories, technical metadata, classifier scalability, Support Vector Machines, lazy learning, regression, continuous ordinal variables, clustering methods, feature descriptors, and text mining. Each answer succinctly explains the concepts and their relevance in the field of data mining. This serves as a comprehensive guide for understanding fundamental data mining principles.

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Data Mining Exam Answer Key

1. What do you mean by data mining?

Answer: Data mining is the process of discovering patterns and knowledge from large amounts of

data.

2. What do you mean by interestingness?

Answer: Interestingness measures how useful and non-trivial a discovered pattern is.

3. Mention the 4 categories of data preprocessing.

Answer: Data cleaning, integration, transformation, and reduction.

4. What is technical metadata in a data warehouse?

Answer: Technical metadata describes data structures, storage, and processing details in a

warehouse.

5. What do you mean by scalability of a classifier?

Answer: Scalability refers to a classifier's ability to handle large amounts of data efficiently.

6. What is the objective of SVM?

Answer: Support Vector Machine (SVM) aims to find a hyperplane that best separates data classes.

7. What is lazy learning? Give an example.

Answer: Lazy learning stores training data and only generalizes during query time, e.g., KNN.

8. What is regression?

Answer: Regression is a statistical method used to model relationships between dependent and

independent variables.

9. What is a continuous ordinal variable? Give an example.

Answer: A continuous ordinal variable has ordered values with a continuous scale, e.g., customer

satisfaction ratings (1-10).


10. What do you mean by partitioning methods of clustering?

Answer: Partitioning methods divide data into k clusters based on similarity, e.g., k-means.

11. What do you mean by feature descriptor?

Answer: A feature descriptor captures the essential characteristics of data points for classification or

clustering.

12. What is text mining?

Answer: Text mining is the process of extracting meaningful insights from unstructured text data.

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