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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

This data alone does not make any sense unless it’s identified to be related in some pattern. Data mining is the process of discovering these patterns among the data and is therefore also known as Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). Data Collection. Anomaly Detection.

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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

Ontotext

These are the so-called supercomputers, led by a smart legion of researchers and practitioners in the fields of data-driven knowledge discovery. Thanks to their might, now scientists and practitioners can develop innovative ways of collecting, storing, processing, and, ultimately, finding patterns in data.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Insufficient training data in the minority class — In domains where data collection is expensive, a dataset containing 10,000 examples is typically considered to be fairly large. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 73–79. Quinlan, J. Everhart, J.