Back to basics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Process

Once in a while I go back to basics to revisit some of the fundamental technology concepts that I’ve learned over past few years. Today, I want to revisit Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Process:

Here are the steps:

1) Raw Data

2) Data Pre processing (cleaning, sampling, transformation, integration etc)

3) Modeling (Building a Data Mining Model)

4) Testing the Model a.k.a assessing the Model

5) Knowledge Discovery

Here is the visualization:

Additional Note:

In the world of Data Mining and Knowledge discovery, we’re looking for a specific type of intelligence from the data which is Patterns. This is important because patterns tend to repeat and so if we find patterns from our data, we can predict/forecast that such things can happen in future.

Conclusion:

In this blog post, we saw the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining process.