Data Mining

1. What recent factors have increased the popularity of data mining?

2. What are some major data mining methods and algorithms?

3. Why do you think the early phases (understanding of the business and understanding of
the data) take the longest in data mining projects?
4. List and briefly define the phases in the CRISP-DM process.
5. What are the main data preprocessing steps? Briefly describe each step and provide
relevant examples.

6. Briefly describe the general algorithm used in decision trees.

7. Give examples of situations in which cluster analysis would be an appropriate data mining
technique.