21-08-2012, 03:33 PM
An Introduction to the WEKA Data Mining System
Data Mining
• "Drowning in Data yet Starving for Knowledge"
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• "Computers have promised us a fountain of wisdom but delivered a flood of data"
William J. Frawley, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Christopher J. Matheus
• Data Mining: "The non trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially
useful information from data"
William J Frawley, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Christopher J Matheus
• Data mining finds valuable information hidden in large volumes of data.
• Data mining is the analysis of data and the use of software techniques for finding
patterns and regularities in sets of data.
• Data Mining is an interdisciplinary field involving:
– Databases
– Statistics
– Machine Learning
– High Performance Computing
– Visualization
– Mathematics