University CS 450 Data Mining‚ Fall 2014 Take-Home Test N#1 Date: September 22nd‚ 2014 Final deadline for submission September 29th‚ 2014 Weighting: 5% Total number of points: 100 Instructions: 1. Attempt all questions. 2. This is an individual test. No collaboration is permitted for assessment items. All submitted materials must be a result of your own work. Part I Question 1 [20 points] Discuss whether or not each of the following activities is a data mining task.
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Using the Standard Deviation You made a number of observations about the data sets for the school activities. You used mean and median to measure the center of the data‚ and you used the interquartile range (IQR) to measure the spread. When outliers are present‚ the median and IQR are used to measure center and spread because they are unaffected by extreme values. When the data appears to be symmetric and there are no known outliers‚ the mean and standard deviation (another measure of spread)
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team‚ collect different types of data. One of them is meeting legal requirements. In order to satisfy legal obligations we collect such information as contractual arrangements‚ employees’ duties‚ privileges‚ salaries‚ working hours‚ vacation accruals‚ bonuses‚ as well as documents relating to health and safety. The Russian Labor Inspection can check any data regarding individual employees and it is important for the organization to timely provide accurate and valid data in order to avoid fees or other
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Case Study Italian retailer Unicomm selects Huawei RH5885 V2 server for its SAP HANA database and S7700 and S5700 switches. Huawei’s SAP HANA application came about as a result of a successful switching project and helps Unicomm to analyse sales data in real time. “With the SAP HANA solution‚ we needed a partner that was ready to support us in every way possible. By helping us to stay in budget and to adopt a system that could grow in line with company requirements‚ Huawei really delivered.” Federico
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and Kimball’s definition of Data Warehousing. Bill Inmon advocates a top-down development approach that adapts traditional relational database tools to the development needs of an enterprise wide data warehouse. From this enterprise wide data store‚ individual departmental databases are developed to serve most decision support needs. Ralph Kimball‚ on the other hand‚ suggests a bottom-up approach that uses dimensional modeling‚ a data modeling approach unique to data warehousing. Rather than building
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FACED ININDIA….. KFC entered India in 1995‚ The regulatory authorities found that KFCs chickens did not adhere to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act‚ 1954 KFC faced severe protests by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)‚ an animal rights protection organization. PETA accused KFC of cruelty towards chickens and released a video tape showing the ill-treatment of birds in KFCs poultry farms * 5. RE-ENTRY OF KFC…… The company had to shut all but one outlet in the country. Recently
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Data Security and Regulations SRK Abstract This paper discusses data security‚ its importance and implementation. The way threats are posed to information of organizations is also discussed. There are plenty of leakage preventive solutions available in the market. Few of them are listed in the paper. There is a list of regulations governing data security in financial and healthcare sector at the end. Data Security and Regulations As we are advancing into information age‚ more
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is a necessity for a businesses trying to maximize its profits. A new‚ and important‚ tool in gaining this knowledge is Data Mining. Data Mining is a set of automated procedures used to find previously unknown patterns and relationships in data. These patterns and relationships‚ once extracted‚ can be used to make valid predictions about the behavior of the customer. Data Mining is generally used for four main tasks: (1) to improve the process of making new customers and retaining customers;
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Nagham Hamid‚ Abid Yahya‚ R. Badlishah Ahmad & Osamah M. Al-Qershi Image Steganography Techniques: An Overview Nagham Hamid University Malaysia Perils (UniMAP) School of Communication and Computer Engineering Penang‚ Malaysia nagham_fawa@yahoo.com Abid Yahya University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Communication and Computer Engineering Perlis‚ Malaysia R. Badlishah Ahmad University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Communication and Computer Engineering Perlis‚ Malaysia
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Mohammed Al Bittar - 1006091 1. What is meant by big data? A term used for complex sets of data which becomes very difficult to process‚ manage‚ or capture by commonly-used software. 2. What is meaning of data-driven culture? A culture where decisions made upon analyzing real statistical information. Like how Wal-Mart checks on the weather in order to provide more products to the customers; because their statistical information shows that whenever there is a storm‚ customers by
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