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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

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

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Density-Based Clustering

Domino Data Lab

Due to its importance in both theory and applications, this algorithm is one of three algorithms awarded the Test of Time Award at the KDD conference in 2014. These definitions may seem abstract, so let’s cover what each one means in more detail. In the definition above for border points , I used the term density-reachable.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

In practice, we have gotten good results by normalizing responses for the first-order effects of factors ignored by our unit definition. Brendan McMahan et al, "Ad Click Prediction: a View from the Trenches" , Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013. [3]

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