Data mining is more about process than it is about clever algorithms. When the process is not well understood, all the clever techniques and algorithms can get applied to the wrong data, in the ...

Introduces basic data mining concepts and techniques for discovering interesting patterns hidden in large-scale data sets, focusing on issues relating to effectiveness and efficiency. Topics covered ...

Specialization: Data Science Foundations: Data Structures and Algorithms Instructor: Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Assistant Professor Prior knowledge needed: Mathematical Background: We expect that the ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, ... Data mining algorithm selection: decision trees. Jan. 27, 2003.

So if race is disproportionately (but not explicitly) represented in the data fed to a data-mining algorithm, the algorithm can infer race and use race indirectly to make an ultimate decision.