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Data mining vs DW and applications
Short answer
Data mining discovers hidden patterns; it is an analysis process, while a data warehouse is a storage repository. Mining works best on warehouse data but can run on other sources. Applications include biomedical (disease prediction, gene analysis), CRM (customer segmentation, churn prediction), and telecom (fraud detection, churn analysis).
What is Data Mining? Is it different from data warehouse? Explain the application of data mining in biomedical, CRM & Telecom Industries.
Data mining
Data mining is the extraction of interesting, hidden and useful patterns or knowledge from large volumes of data, using techniques such as classification, clustering, association rules and prediction.
Is it different from a data warehouse? Yes.
| Point | Data warehouse | Data mining |
|---|---|---|
| Nature | A repository (storage) | A process/analysis technique |
| Purpose | Store integrated historical data | Discover hidden patterns |
| Output | Data, reports, OLAP views | Knowledge: rules, clusters, models |
| Approach | Verification: user asks a question | Discovery: system finds patterns itself |
| Dependency | Can exist without mining | Works best on warehouse data, but can run on any data |
The warehouse supplies clean, integrated data; data mining uses it.
Applications
- Biomedical: disease prediction and diagnosis, gene and protein analysis, drug discovery, medical image mining.
- CRM: customer segmentation, churn prediction, customer lifetime value, cross-selling by association rules, campaign response prediction.
- Telecom: churn detection, fraud detection (cloning, subscription fraud), call-pattern analysis for tariff design, network fault prediction and usage-based segmentation.
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