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Lecture 2: Preprocessing Techniques for Data Mining 周水庚 2006年2月26日 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 1 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 2 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 3 What is Data? Collection of data objects and their attributes Attribute is a property or characteristic of an object Examples: eye color of a person, temperature, etc. Attribute is also known as variable, field, characteristic, feature, or observation A collection of attributes describe an object 2006-2-26 Object is also known as record, point, case, sample, entity, or instance Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 4 Attribute Values Attribute values are numbers or symbols assigned to an attribute Distinction between attributes and attribute values Same attribute can be mapped to different attribute values Example: height can be measured in feet or meters Different attributes can be mapped to the same set of values Example: Attribute values for ID and age are integers But properties of attribute values can be different 2006-2-26 – ID has no limit but age has a maximum and minimum value Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 5 Types of Attributes There are different types of attributes Nominal Ordinal Examples: calendar dates, temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Ratio 2006-2-26 Examples: rankings (e.g., taste of potato chips on a scale from 1-10), grades, height in {tall, medium, short} Interval Examples: ID numbers, eye color, zip codes Examples: temperature in Kelvin, length, time, counts Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 6 Properties of Attribute Values The type of an attribute depends on which of the following properties it possess: Distinctness: = ≠ Order: < > Addition: + Multiplication: * / 2006-2-26 Nominal attribute: distinctness Ordinal attribute: distinctness & order Interval attribute: distinctness, order & addition Ratio attribute: all 4 properties Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 7 Categorical vs. Numerical Collectively, we refer Nominal attribute and ordinal attribute to categorical or qualitative attribute The other two types of attributes, interval and ratio attributes to numerical or quantitative attributes 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 8 Discrete and Continuous Values Discrete Attribute Has only a finite or countably infinite set of values Examples: zip codes, counts, or the set of words in a collection of documents Often represented as integer variables. Note: binary attributes are a special case of discrete attributes Continuous Attribute 2006-2-26 Has real numbers as attribute values Examples: temperature, height, or weight. Practically, real values can be measured and represented using a finite number of digits. Continuous attributes are typically represented as floating-point variables Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 9 Asymmetric Attributes Only presence (a non-zero attribute value) is regarded as important. Examples: Words present in documents Items present in customer transactions 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 10 Types of Data Sets Common Types Record Graph Ordered 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 11 Record Data Data that consists of a collection of records, each of which consists of a fixed set of attributes 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 12 Data Matrix If data objects have the same fixed set of numeric attributes, then the data objects can be thought of as points in a multi-dimensional space, where each dimension represents a distinct attribute Such data set can be represented by an m by n matrix, where there are m rows, one for each object, and n columns, one for each attribute 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 13 Document Data Each document becomes a `term' vector, 2006-2-26 each term is a component (attribute) of the vector, the value of each component is the number of times the corresponding term occurs in the document Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 14 Transaction Data A special type of record data, where 2006-2-26 each record (transaction) involves a set of items. For example, consider a grocery store. The set of products purchased by a customer during one shopping trip constitute a transaction, while the individual products that were purchased are the items Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 15 Graph Data Examples: Generic graph and HTML Links <a href="papers/papers.html#bbbb"> Data Mining </a> <li> <a href="papers/papers.html#aaaa"> Graph Partitioning </a> <li> <a href="papers/papers.html#aaaa"> Parallel Solution of Sparse Linear System of Equations </a> <li> <a href="papers/papers.html#ffff"> N-Body Computation and Dense Linear System Solvers 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 16 Chemical Data Benzene Molecule: C6H6 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 17 Ordered Data Sequences of transactions 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 18 Ordered Data Genomic sequence data 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 19 Ordered Data Spatio-Temporal Data Average monthly temperature of land and ocean 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 20 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 21 Why Data Preprocessing? Data in the real world is dirty incomplete: lacking attribute values, lacking certain attributes of interest, or containing only aggregate data noisy: containing errors or outliers e.g., Salary=“-10” inconsistent: containing discrepancies in codes or names 2006-2-26 e.g., occupation=“” e.g., Age=“42” Birthday=“03/07/1997” e.g., Was rating “1,2,3”, now rating “A, B, C” e.g., discrepancy between duplicate records Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 22 Why is Data Dirty? Incomplete data comes from 2006-2-26 human’s negligence different consideration between the time when the data was collected and when it is analyzed hardware/software problems Noisy data comes from the process of data collection entry transmission Inconsistent data comes from Different data sources Functional dependency violation Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 23 Why is Data Preprocessing Important? No quality data, no quality mining results! Quality decisions must be based on quality data e.g., duplicate or missing data may cause incorrect or even misleading statistics. Data warehouse needs consistent integration of quality data Data extraction, cleaning, and transformation comprises the majority of the work of building a data warehouse. —Bill Inmon 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 24 Multi-Dimensional Measure of Data Quality A well-accepted multidimensional view: Accuracy Completeness Consistency Timeliness Believability Value added Interpretability Accessibility 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 25 Major Tasks in Data Preprocessing Data cleaning (数据清洗) Data integration (数据整合) Obtains reduced representation in volume but produces the same or similar analytical results Data discretization (数据离散化) 2006-2-26 Normalization and aggregation Data reduction (数据裁减) Integration of multiple databases, data cubes, or files Data transformation (数据转换) Fill in missing values, smooth noisy data, identify or remove outliers, and resolve inconsistencies Part of data reduction but with particular importance, especially for numerical data Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 26 Forms of Data Preprocessing 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 27 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 28 Data Cleaning Importance “Data cleaning is one of the three biggest problems in data warehousing”—Ralph Kimball “Data cleaning is the number one problem in data warehousing”—DCI survey Data cleaning tasks 2006-2-26 Fill in missing values Identify outliers and smooth out noisy data Correct inconsistent data Resolve redundancy caused by data integration Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 29 Missing Data Data is not always available Missing data may be due to equipment malfunction inconsistent with other recorded data and thus deleted data not entered due to misunderstanding 2006-2-26 E.g., many tuples have no recorded value for several attributes, such as customer income in sales data certain data may not be considered important at the time of entry not register history or changes of the data Missing data may need to be inferred. Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 30 How to Handle Missing Data? Ignore the tuple: usually done when class label is missing (assuming the tasks in classification—not effective when the percentage of missing values per attribute varies considerably. Fill in the missing value manually: tedious + infeasible? Fill in it automatically with a global constant : e.g., “unknown”, a new class?! the attribute mean the attribute mean for all samples belonging to the same class: smarter the most probable value: inference-based such as Bayesian formula or decision tree 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 31 How to Deal with Outliers? Special algorithms are required to effectively and efficiently detect outliers from large datasets Outliers are not noise, although sometime noise may be regarded as outliers Outliers are a kind of small patterns hidden in data. It should be regarded as the counterpart of clusters 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 32 Incorrect Data Incorrect attribute values may due to faulty data collection instruments data entry problems data transmission problems technology limitation inconsistency in naming convention Other data problems which requires data cleaning duplicate records incomplete data inconsistent data 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 33 Duplicate Data Data set may include data objects that are duplicates, or almost duplicates of one another Examples: Major issue when merging data from heterogeneous sources Same person with multiple email addresses Deduplication 2006-2-26 Process of dealing with duplicate data issues Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 34 Noisy Data Noise refers to modification of original values, or random error or variance in a measured variable 2006-2-26 Examples: distortion of a person’s voice when talking on a poor phone and “snow” on television screen Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 35 Outliers Outliers are data objects with characteristics that are considerably different than most of the other data objects in the data set 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 36 How to Handle Noisy Data? Binning method: first sort data and partition into (equi-depth) bins then one can smooth by bin means, smooth by bin median, smooth by bin boundaries, etc. Clustering detect and remove outliers Combined computer and human inspection detect suspicious values and check by human (e.g., deal with possible outliers) Regression smooth by fitting the data into regression functions 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 37 Simple Discretization Methods: Binning Equal-width (distance) partitioning: Divides the range into N intervals of equal size: uniform grid if A and B are the lowest and highest values of the attribute, the width of intervals will be: W = (B – A)/N. This is the most straightforward way, but outliers may dominate presentation Skewed data is not handled well. Equal-depth (frequency) partitioning: Divides the range into N intervals, each containing approximately same number of samples 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 38 Binning Methods for Data Smoothing * Sorted data for price (in dollars): 4, 8, 9, 15, 21, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 34 * Partition into (equi-depth) bins: - Bin 1: 4, 8, 9, 15 - Bin 2: 21, 21, 24, 25 - Bin 3: 26, 28, 29, 34 * Smoothing by bin means: - Bin 1: 9, 9, 9, 9 - Bin 2: 23, 23, 23, 23 - Bin 3: 29, 29, 29, 29 * Smoothing by bin boundaries: - Bin 1: 4, 4, 4, 15 - Bin 2: 21, 21, 25, 25 - Bin 3: 26, 26, 26, 34 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 39 Cluster Analysis 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 40 Regression y Y1 y=x+1 Y1’ X1 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. x 41 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 42 Data Integration Data integration: combines data from multiple sources into a coherent store Schema integration integrate metadata from different sources Entity identification problem: identify real world entities from multiple data sources, e.g., A.cust-id ≡ B.cust-# Detecting and resolving data value conflicts for the same real world entity, attribute values from different sources are different possible reasons: different representations, different scales, e.g., metric vs. British units 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 43 Handling Redundancy in Data Integration Redundant data occur often when integration of multiple databases The same attribute may have different names in different databases One attribute may be a “derived” attribute in another table, e.g., annual revenue Redundant data may be able to be detected by correlational analysis Careful integration of the data from multiple sources may help reduce/avoid redundancies and inconsistencies and improve mining speed and quality 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 44 Data Transformation Smoothing: remove noise from data Aggregation: summarization, data cube construction Generalization: concept hierarchy climbing Normalization: scaled to fall within a small, specified range min-max normalization z-score normalization normalization by decimal scaling Attribute/feature construction 2006-2-26 New attributes constructed from the given ones Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 45 Data Transformation: Normalization min-max normalization v − minA v' = (new _ maxA − new _ minA) + new _ minA maxA − minA z-score normalization(Zero-mean normalization) v − mean A v'= stand _ dev A normalization by decimal scaling v v' = j 10 2006-2-26 Where j is the smallest integer such that Max(| v ' |)<1 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 46 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 47 Data Reduction Strategies A data warehouse may store terabytes of data Complex data analysis/mining may take a very long time to run on the complete data set Data reduction Obtain a reduced representation of the data set that is much smaller in volume but yet produce the same (or almost the same) analytical results Data reduction strategies Data cube aggregation Dimensionality reduction—remove unimportant attributes Data Compression Numerosity reduction—fit data into models Discretization and concept hierarchy generation 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 48 Data Aggregation Combining two or more attributes (or objects) into a single attribute (or object) Purpose Data reduction Change of scale cities aggregated into regions, states, countries, etc More “stable” data 2006-2-26 reduce the number of attributes or objects aggregated data tends to have less variability Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 49 Data Aggregation Variation of Precipitation in Australia 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 50 Data Cube Aggregation The lowest level of a data cube-base cuboid Further reduce the size of data to deal with Reference appropriate levels e.g., a customer in a phone calling data warehouse. Multiple levels of aggregation in data cubes the aggregated data for an individual entity of interest Use the smallest representation which is enough to solve the task Queries regarding aggregated information should be answered using data cube, when possible 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 51 Curse of Dimensionality When dimensionality increases, data becomes increasingly sparse in the space that it occupies Definitions of density and distance between points, which is critical for clustering and outlier detection, become less meaningful 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 52 Dimensionality Reduction Purpose Avoid curse of dimensionality Reduce amount of time and memory required by data mining algorithms Allow data to be more easily visualized May help to eliminate irrelevant features or reduce noise Techniques 2006-2-26 Principle Component Analysis Singular Value Decomposition Others: supervised and non-linear techniques Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 53 Dimensionality Reduction Feature selection (i.e., attribute subset selection): Select a minimum set of features such that the probability distribution of different classes given the values for those features is as close as possible to the original distribution given the values of all features reduce # of patterns in the patterns, easier to understand Heuristic methods (due to exponential # of choices): step-wise forward selection step-wise backward elimination combining forward selection and backward elimination decision-tree induction 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 54 Example of Decision Tree Induction Initial attribute set: {A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6} A4 ? A6? A1? Class 1 > 2006-2-26 Class 2 Class 1 Class 2 Reduced attribute set: {A1, A4, A6} Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 55 Data Compression String compression There are extensive theories and well-tuned algorithms Typically lossless But only limited manipulation is possible without expansion Audio/video compression Typically lossy compression, with progressive refinement Sometimes small fragments of signal can be reconstructed without reconstructing the whole Time sequence is not audio Typically short and vary slowly with time 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 56 Data Compression Compressed Data Original Data lossless Original Data Approximated 2006-2-26 sy s lo Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 57 Principal Component Analysis Given N data vectors from k-dimensions, find c <= k orthogonal vectors that can be best used to represent data The original data set is reduced to one consisting of N data vectors on c principal components (reduced dimensions) Each data vector is a linear combination of the c principal component vectors Works for numeric data only Used when the number of dimensions is large 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 58 Principal Component Analysis X2 Y1 Y2 X1 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 59 Numerosity Reduction Parametric methods 2006-2-26 Assume the data fits some model, estimate model parameters, store only the parameters, and discard the data (except possible outliers) Log-linear models: obtain value at a point in m-D space as the product on appropriate marginal subspaces Non-parametric methods Do not assume models Major families: histograms, clustering, sampling Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 60 Regression and Log-Linear Models Linear regression: Data are modeled to fit a straight line Often uses the least-square method to fit the line Multiple regression: allows a response variable Y to be modeled as a linear function of multidimensional feature vector Log-linear model: approximates discrete multidimensional probability distributions 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 61 Regress Analysis and Log-Linear Models Linear regression: Y = α + β X Two parameters , α and β specify the line and are to be estimated by using the data at hand. using the least squares criterion to the known values of Y1, Y2, …, X1, X2, …. Multiple regression: Y = b0 + b1 X1 + b2 X2. Many nonlinear functions can be transformed into the above. Log-linear models: The multi-way table of joint probabilities is approximated by a product of lower-order tables. 2006-2-26 Probability: p(a, b, c, d) = αab βacχad δbcd Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 62 Histograms 2006-2-26 30 25 20 15 10 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 100000 90000 80000 70000 60000 0 50000 5 40000 35 30000 40 20000 A popular data reduction technique Divide data into buckets and store average (sum) for each bucket Can be constructed optimally in one dimension using dynamic programming Related to quantization problems. 10000 63 Clustering Partition data set into clusters, and one can store cluster representation only Can be very effective if data is clustered but not if data is “smeared” Can have hierarchical clustering and be stored in multi-dimensional index tree structures There are many choices of clustering definitions and clustering algorithms, further detailed in Chapter 8 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 64 Sampling Allow a mining algorithm to run in complexity that is potentially sub-linear to the size of the data Choose a representative subset of the data Simple random sampling may have very poor performance in the presence of skew Develop adaptive sampling methods Stratified sampling: Approximate the percentage of each class (or subpopulation of interest) in the overall database Used in conjunction with skewed data Sampling may not reduce database I/Os (page at a time). 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 65 Sampling OR om W SRS le rand ut p m i tho i s ( w p le t) m n a s e em c a l rep SRSW R Raw Data 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 66 Sampling Raw Data 2006-2-26 Cluster/Stratified Sample Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 67 Hierarchical Reduction Use multi-resolution structure with different degrees of reduction Hierarchical clustering is often performed but tends to define partitions of data sets rather than “clusters” Parametric methods are usually not amenable to hierarchical representation Hierarchical aggregation An index tree hierarchically divides a data set into partitions by value range of some attributes Each partition can be considered as a bucket Thus an index tree with aggregates stored at each node is a hierarchical histogram 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 68 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 69 Discretization 2006-2-26 Three types of attributes: Nominal — values from an unordered set Ordinal — values from an ordered set Continuous — real numbers Discretization: divide the range of a continuous attribute into intervals Some classification algorithms only accept categorical attributes. Reduce data size by discretization Prepare for further analysis Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 70 Discretization and Concept Hierachy Discretization reduce the number of values for a given continuous attribute by dividing the range of the attribute into intervals. Interval labels can then be used to replace actual data values Concept hierarchies 2006-2-26 reduce the data by collecting and replacing low level concepts (such as numeric values for the attribute age) by higher level concepts (such as young, middle-aged, or senior) Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 71 Discretization and Concept Hierarchy Generation for Numeric Data Binning (see sections before) Histogram analysis (see sections before) Clustering analysis (see sections before) Entropy-based discretization Segmentation by natural partitioning 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 72 Entropy-Based Discretization Given a set of samples S, if S is partitioned into two intervals S1 and S2 using boundary T, the entropy after partitioning is E (S ,T ) = | S 1| |S| Ent ( S 1) + |S 2| |S| Ent ( S 2) The boundary that minimizes the entropy function over all possible boundaries is selected as a binary discretization. The process is recursively applied to partitions obtained until some stopping criterion is met, e.g., Ent ( S ) − E (T , S ) > δ Experiments show that it may reduce data size and improve classification accuracy 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 73 Segmentation by Natural Partitioning A simply 3-4-5 rule can be used to segment numeric data into relatively uniform, “natural” intervals 2006-2-26 If an interval covers 3, 6, 7 or 9 distinct values at the most significant digit, partition the range into 3 equi-width intervals If it covers 2, 4, or 8 distinct values at the most significant digit, partition the range into 4 intervals If it covers 1, 5, or 10 distinct values at the most significant digit, partition the range into 5 intervals Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 74 Example of 3-4-5 Rule count Step 1: Step 2: -$351 -$159 Min Low (i.e, 5%-tile) msd=1,000 profit Low=-$1,000 (-$1,000 - 0) (-$400 - 0) (-$200 -$100) (-$100 0) 2006-2-26 Max High=$2,000 ($1,000 - $2,000) (0 -$ 1,000) (-$4000 -$5,000) Step 4: (-$300 -$200) High(i.e, 95%-0 tile) $4,700 (-$1,000 - $2,000) Step 3: (-$400 -$300) $1,838 ($1,000 - $2, 000) (0 - $1,000) (0 $200) ($1,000 $1,200) ($200 $400) ($1,200 $1,400) ($1,400 $1,600) ($400 $600) ($600 $800) ($800 $1,000) ($1,600 ($1,800 $1,800) $2,000) Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. ($2,000 - $5, 000) ($2,000 $3,000) ($3,000 $4,000) ($4,000 $5,000) 75 Concept Hierarchy Generation for Categorical Data Specification of a partial ordering of attributes explicitly at the schema level by users or experts street<city<state<country Specification of a portion of a hierarchy by explicit data grouping {Urbana, Champaign, Chicago}<Illinois Specification of a set of attributes. System automatically generates partial ordering by analysis of the number of distinct values E.g., street < city <state < country Specification of only a partial set of attributes E.g., only street < city, not others 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 76 Automatic Concept Hierarchy Generation Some concept hierarchies can be automatically generated based on the analysis of the number of distinct values per attribute in the given data set The attribute with the most distinct values is placed at the lowest level of the hierarchy Note: Exception—weekday, month, quarter, year country 15 distinct values province_or_ state 65 distinct values city 3567 distinct values street 2006-2-26 674,339 distinct values Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 77 Outline Introduction to Data Why preprocess the data? Data cleaning Data integration and transformation Data reduction Discretization and concept hierarchy generation Summary 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 78 Summary Data preparation is a big issue for both warehousing and mining Data preparation includes Data cleaning and data integration Data reduction and feature selection Discretization A lot a methods have been developed but still an active area of research 2006-2-26 Data Mining: Tech. & Appl. 79 References E. Rahm and H. H. Do. Data Cleaning: Problems and Current Approaches. IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering. Vol.23, No.4 D. P. Ballou and G. K. Tayi. Enhancing data quality in data warehouse environments. Communications of ACM, 42:73-78, 1999. H.V. Jagadish et al., Special Issue on Data Reduction Techniques. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 20(4), December 1997. A. Maydanchik, Challenges of Efficient Data Cleansing (DM Review - Data Quality resource portal) D. Pyle. 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