Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning

Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning
ISBN-10
0471458643
ISBN-13
9780471458647
Category
Mathematics
Pages
203
Language
English
Published
2003-08-01
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Tamraparni Dasu, Theodore Johnson

Description

Written for practitioners of data mining, data cleaning anddatabase management. Presents a technical treatment of data quality includingprocess, metrics, tools and algorithms. Focuses on developing an evolving modeling strategy through aniterative data exploration loop and incorporation of domainknowledge. Addresses methods of detecting, quantifying and correcting dataquality issues that can have a significant impact on findings anddecisions, using commercially available tools as well as newalgorithmic approaches. Uses case studies to illustrate applications in real lifescenarios. Highlights new approaches and methodologies, such as theDataSphere space partitioning and summary based analysistechniques. Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning will serve as animportant reference for serious data analysts who need to analyzelarge amounts of unfamiliar data, managers of operations databases,and students in undergraduate or graduate level courses dealingwith large scale data analys is and data mining.

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