NMIT, Bangalore Data Mining Question Bank Dept of ISE

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DATA MINING (ISE751)

Sem: 7th Credits: 3

Dept: ISE

UNIT-I

1. What is Data Mining? Explain the process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) with a
diagram

2. What are the different motivating challenges faced by Data Mining Algorithms? Explain each of them

3. Explain the origins of Data Mining with diagram

4. What is predictive modeling? Explain with example

5. Discuss Association Analysis and Cluster Analysis with examples

6. What are the different types of attributes? Explain with a table

7. In case of record data, what is transaction / market based data, Data Matrix and Sparse Data Matrix?
Explain with examples.

8. In case of ordered data, Explain Sequential Data, Sequence Data, Time Series Data and Spatial Data
with examples

9. What do you mean by Data Preprocessing? Explain Aggregation and Sampling in this respect

10. Explain Dimensionality reduction in Data Preprocessing

11. What are the different variations of Graph Data? Explain with diagrams

12. What is Feature Subset Selection? What are the different approaches for doing this? Explain the
architecture of Feature subset selection with a diagram

13. In case of Feature Creation, Explain the following with examples:

i) Feature Extraction

ii) Mapping Data to new space

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iii) Feature Construction

14. What do you mean by Binarization? Explain the conversion of a Categorical Attribute to 3 binary
attributes? What is its drawback? How is it overcome?

15. How is Discretization of Continuous Attributes done? In this regard, Explain unsupervised and
supervised Discretization.

16. What is variable transformation? In this regard, explain

i) Simple Functional Transformation

ii) Normalization/Standardization

17. Explain the following terms:

i) Outliers (ii) Precision (iii) Accuracy (iv) Bias

18. Explain Data Mining Tasks in detail with examples

19. Define and explain the terms:

i) Attribute (ii) Measurement (iii) Data Set (iv) Sparsity

20. What are Discrete and Continuous Attributes? Explain the term resolution.

21. What is the curse of Dimensionality? Explain Data Quality issues related to applications

UNIT-II

1. Give the formal definition of classification. What is classification model? Explain with diagram

2. With a diagram, explain the general approach for building a classification model

3. For the Nodes N1 & N2 given below, calculate the Gini Index, Entropy and Classification Error.

Based on this, mention which node is suitable for splitting

Node N1 Count

Class=0 0

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Class=1 6

Node N2 Count

Class=0 1

Class=1 5

4. What is confusion matrix? Explain the confusion matrix for a 2-class problem with an example. In
this regard, explain Accuracy and error rate of prediction with appropriate formula

5. Write Hunt’s Algorithm. Explain it with an example

6. Compare rule-based and class-ordering schemes with examples

7. Explain different methods for expressing Attribute test conditions

8. Explain in detail the characteristics of Decision Tree Induction.

9. Write and explain the algorithm for Decision Tree Induction.

10. What is Gain Ratio? Explain with formula.

11. Calculate the Gini Index for Attributes A and B given below and specify which attribute is better for

splitting.

A B

Node N1 Node N2 Node N1 Node N2

C0: 4 C0: 2 C0: 1 C0: 5
C1: 3 C1: 3 C1: 4 C1: 2

Where C0, C1 stand for Class 0 and Class 1 respectively.

12. What is rule based classifier? Explain how it works with an example. In this regard, also define
accuracy and coverage

13. Consider a training set that contains 60 positive examples and 100 negative examples. Suppose two
rules are given:

R1: covers 50 positive examples and 5 negative examples

R2: covers 2 positive examples and no negative examples

For the above two rules, calculate Laplace, accuracy, coverage and likelihood ratio.

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14. Explain characteristics of Rule-Based classifier

15. How can a decision tree be converted into classification rules? Explain with example.

16. Write and explain the k-nearest neighbor classification algorithm

17. What are the characteristics of Nearest-neighbor classifier? Explain

18. Explain 1-nearest-neighbour, 2-nearest-neighbour and 3-nearest neighbour with examples.

19. Consider a training set that contains 100 positive examples and 400 negative examples. For each of
the following candidate rules

R1: A -> + (Covers 4 positive and one negative example)

R2: B -> + (Covers 30 positive and 10 negative examples)

R3: C -> + (Covers 100 positive and 90 negative examples)

Determine which is the best and worst candidate rules according to:

i) Rule Accuracy (ii) Laplace measure (iii) Likelihood ratio statistic

20. Consider a training set that contains 29 positive examples and 21 negative examples. For each of the

following candidate rules

R1: A -> + (Covers 12 positive and 3 negative examples)

R2: B -> + (Covers 7 positive and 3 negative examples)

R3: C -> + (Covers 8 positive and 4 negative examples)

Determine which is the best and worst candidate rules according to:

i) Rule Accuracy (ii) Laplace measure (iii) Likelihood ratio statistic

21. For the following Confusion matrix , calculate the Accuracy and Error rate:

Predicted Class

Class=1 Class=0

Actual Class=1 15 10
Class
Class=0 20 11

22. Consider the following table with attributes A, B, C and two class labels +, -

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A B C Number of Instances

+ -

T T T 5 0

F T T 0 20

T F T 20 0

F F T 0 5

T T F 0 0

F T F 25 0

T F F 0 0

F F F 0 25

According to the classification error rate, which attribute would be chosen as the best splitting attribute?

23. Explain the measures for selecting the best split

UNIT-III

1. How is market basket data represented in a binary format? Explain with example. In this case explain
the terms itemset, association rule, support count, support and confidence

2. What is use of support and confidence? Explain

3. Discuss association rule mining problem. Explain

4. What is frequent itemset generation? Generate candidate 3 itemsets for the following data by applying
APriori principle taking a minimum support threshold of 60%

TID Items

1 {Bread, Milk}

2 {Bread, A, B, C}

3 {Milk, A, B, D}

4 {Bread, Milk, A, B}

5 {Bread, Milk, A, D}

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5. Write the algorithm for Frequent itemset generation of the Apriori algorithm

6. How is support counting done using a Hash tree? Explain with example

7. How are candidates generated using Lexicographic ordering ? Explain with example.

8. What is candidate generation and pruning? Explain Fk-1 x F1 and Fk-1 x Fk-1 methods of candidate
generation with examples.

9. What are the factors that affect the computation complexity of the Apriori algorithm? Explain

10. Explain rule generation in Apriori algorithm with example.

11. Write the Apriori algorithm for rule generation

12. What is maximal frequent itemset? Explain with example.

13. Discuss closed Frequent itemsets with example

14. What are the alternative methods for generating frequent items? Explain

15. Explain relationships among frequent, maximal frequent and closed frequent itemsets with diagram

16. Explain the DFS and BFS methods of generating frequent itemsets with examples.

17. What are the two ways in which a transaction data set be represented? Explain with example

18. For the following data set:

TransID Items Bought

0001 {a,d,e}
0024 {a,b,c,e}
0012 {a,b,d,e}
0031 {a,c,d,e}
0015 {b,c,e}
0022 {b,d,e}
0029 {c,d}
0040 {a,b,c}
0030 {a,d,e}
0038 {a,b,e}
i) Compute the support count for itemsets {e}, {b,d} and {b,d,e}

ii) Compute the support and confidence for association rules:

{b,d} -> {e} and {e} -> {b, d}

Is confidence a symmetric measure?

19. For the market based transactions given below:

Trans ID Items Bought

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1 {a,b,d,e}
2 {b,c,d}
3 {a,b,d,e}
4 {a,c,d,e}
5 {b,c,d,e}
6 {b,d,e}
7 {c,d}
8 {a,b,c}
9 {a,d,e}
10 {b,d}
i) What is the maximum number of association rules that can be extracted from this data?

ii) What is the maximum number of frequent itemsets that can be extracted (including null set)?

iii) Generate candidate 1-itemset, 2-itemsets and 3-itemsets assuming a support threshold of 60%
using Apriori algorithm

20. Write short notes on the following:

i. Equivalence classes

ii. Breadth First and Depth First Search

iii. General-to-Specific Vs Specific-to-General

UNIT-IV

1. What is FP Tree? Explain its construction with example

2. How are frequent itemsets generated using FP-Tree Algorithm? Explain with example.

3. What are contingency tables? Explain its contents.

4. Explain the limitations of Support and Confidence Framework by taking an example.

5. For the following tables, Calculate the Interest Factor, ø-correlation coefficient and IS Measure

p p

q 880 5 930
0

q 50 3 70
0

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930 7 1000
0
r r

s 2 50 70
0

s 5 880 930
0

7 930 1000
6. How can Objective Measures be extended 0
beyond pairs of Binary Variables? Explain
with contingency table

7. What are the properties of Objective Measures? Explain in detail

8. Calculate ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure, Interest Factor and Confidence for the rule
{Tea} -> {Coffee} for the following table

Coffe Coffe
e e

Tea 880 50 200

Tea 50 30 800

800 200 1000

9. What is Sequence? Explain with examples

10. What is Simpson’s Paradox? Explain with example.

11. For the following contingency tables compute support, the interest measure, and the ø-correlation
coefficient, for the association patterns {A,B}. Also compute the confidence of rules A -> B and B
-> A. Is confidence a Symmetric measure?

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B B B B

9 1 A 89 1

1 89 1 9

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

A AAAAAAAAAAAAA

12. What are Subsequences? Explain with example

13. What is meant by Cross-Support Patterns? How is it eliminated?

14. For the following two-way contingency table

Buy Buy Exercise

HDTV Machine
Yes No

Yes 99 81 180

No 54 66 120

153 147 300

Calculate:

i) Confidence for the rules {HDTV=Yes} -> {Exercise Machine=Yes} and

{HDTV=No}-> {Exercise Machine=Yes}

ii) ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure and Interest Factor

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c) Explain the inversion and scaling properties of Objective Measures with examples (6)

15. Consider the three-way contingency table below:

Customer Group Buy HDTV Buy Exercise Total

Machine
Yes No
College Students Yes 1 9 10
No 4 30 34
Working Adult Yes 98 72 170
No 50 36 86

Compute:

i) ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure, Interest Factor when Customer Group=College

Students

ii) ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure, Interest Factor when Customer Group=Working Adult

iii)Calculate Confidence for the rules when {HDTV=Yes} -> {Exercise Machine=Yes},
{HDTV=No} -> {Exercise Machine=Yes} when Customer Group=College Students and

{HDTV=Yes} -> {Exercise Machine=Yes}, {HDTV=No} -> {Exercise Machine=Yes}

when Customer Group=Working Adult

16. Construct FP-Tree for the following Transaction Data Set:

Transaction ID Items Bought

1 {a,b,d,e}
2 {b,c,d}
3 {a,b,d,e}
4 {a,c,d,e}
5 {b,c,d,e}
6 {b,d,e}
7 {c,d}
8 {a,b,c}
9 {a,d,e}
10 {b,d}
17. Identify the frequent itemsets in the above transactions using FP-Tree Algorithm

18. What is Sequential Pattern Discovery? Explain with example

19. For the following contingency table Compute:

i) ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure, Interest Factor when C=0

ii) ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure, Interest Factor when C=1

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A
1 0
C=0 B 1 0 15
0 15 30
C=1 B 1 5 0
0 0 15
20. What do you mean by Timing Constraints with regard to Sequential Patterns?

21. Draw contingency tables for the rules {b} -> {c} and {a} -> {d} using the transactions shown

below:

Transaction ID Items Bought

1 {a,b,d,e}
2 {b,c,d}
3 {a,b,d,e}
4 {a,c,d,e}
5 {b,c,d,e}
6 {b,d,e}
7 {c,d}
8 {a,b,c}
9 {a,d,e}
10 {b,d}
Using these contingency tables from compute ø-correlation coefficient, IS Measure, Interest Factor and
Confidence for the two rules (Contingency tables)

22. Write the Apriori-like Algorithm for Sequential Pattern Discovery.

UNIT-V

1. What is Cluster Analysis? Explain

2. What are the different types of Clustering? Explain with diagrams

3. Discuss different types of Clusters

4. Write and explain the basic K-Means Algorithm

5. With respect to K-Means algorithm, explain how points are assigned to closest centroid using
SSE for centroid calculation

6. In K-Means Algorithm, How are initial centroids chosen? Explain with diagram

7. Give a table listing common choices for Proximity, Centroids and Objective Functions with
respect to K-Means Algorithm
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8. Comment on Time and Space Complexity of K-Means Algorithm

9. What are the additional issues in K-Means algorithm? Explain

10. Write and explain the Bisecting K-Means Algorithm

11. What are Strengths and Weaknesses of K-Means Algorithm

12. Write and explain Basic Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm. How is proximity
between clusters defined?

13. Comment on the Time and Space Complexity of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering
algorithm.

14. Discuss the key issues in Hierarchical Clustering

15. What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of Hierarchical Clustering

16. Explain the Single Link or MIN method of Hierarchical Clustering with example

17. Explain Complete Link or MAX method of Hierarchical Clustering with example

18. Discuss Group Average Version of Hierarchical Clustering with example

19. How are points classified according to Centroid Based Density in DBSCAN algorithm? Explain with
diagrams and example

20. Write and Explain DBSCAN algorithm

21. Comment on Time and Space Complexity of DBSCAN algorithm

22. What are strengths and weaknesses of DBSCAN algorithm

23. What is Cluster Evaluation? Explain overview of Cluster Evaluation

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