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Short note: Data mining visualization
Short answer
Data mining visualization presents data, models, and results graphically to reveal patterns, outliers, and trends. Techniques include scatter plots, histograms, decision trees, parallel coordinates, heat maps, and network graphs. Benefits are easier understanding, outlier detection, and interactive exploration; limitations are high dimensionality, over-plotting, and misleading design.
Write a short note on Data mining visualizations.
Data mining visualisation presents data, mining models and results in graphical form, so that users can understand them, explore the data interactively and communicate the findings. A human sees patterns, trends and outliers quickly in pictures that are hard to see in tables of numbers.
Uses
- Data visualisation: view the data before mining to understand its distribution, quality and relations.
- Mining result visualisation: show patterns found, such as decision trees, association rules, clusters.
- Process and model visualisation: show the steps and how an algorithm works.
- Visual data mining: the user interactively guides the mining using the display.
Common techniques
| Technique | Shows |
|---|---|
| Bar, pie and line charts | Counts, proportions, trends |
| Histogram, box plot | Distribution, outliers |
| Scatter plot / matrix | Relationship of two or more attributes; clusters |
| Parallel coordinates | Many dimensions at once |
| Dendrogram | Hierarchical clustering |
| Decision-tree diagram | Classification rules |
| Heat map | Correlations and densities |
| Network graph | Associations, links, social networks |
| Data cube / OLAP views | Multi-dimensional summaries |
| Maps | Spatial data |
Benefits
Easier understanding of results by non-experts, helps to find outliers and errors, supports decision making, and allows interactive exploration (zoom, filter, drill down).
Limitations
Hard for very high dimensional or huge data (over-plotting), and a poor design can mislead.
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