Download 2005 Spring CS157A Assignment 5

2005 Spring CS157A Assignment 5
Prof. Sin-Min Lee
Due: May 10, 2005 Tuesday.
Data mining has found application in many industries and disciplines for the discovery of
useful information in large datasets. The scope of data mining is expanding with
exciting new usages being found everyday in diverse domains.
The list below shows some of the areas in which data mining has been applied:
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Market-Basket Analysis
Credit Card Fraud Detection
Insurance Fraud Detection
Customer Relationship Management
Computer Security
Target Marketing
Cross Selling
Market Segmentation
Quality Control
Weather Forecasting (or any other forecasting, e.g. Stock Markets)
Finance Planning
Customer Profiling
Engineering design
Bioinformatics
Your task is to use two different search engines and find two different recent stories involving
data mining applications in two DISTINCT areas mentioned above. Describe the role of "data
mining" in the story using your own words.
Submit your assignment electronically to:
[email protected]
Some References:
Fayyad, Usama, Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in
Databases, Communications of the ACM, 39 11, November 1996.
Fayyad, Usama, Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Evolving Data Mining into Solutions for
Insights, Communications of the ACM, 45 8, August 2002.
Fayyad, Usama, et al., Mining Scientific Data, Communications of the ACM, 39 11,
November 1996.
Communications of the ACM, Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery November 1999.
SAS Institute, Data Mining and the Case for Sampling, SAS Institute Best Practices
Paper, SAS Institute, 1998.
Smyth, Padhraic, Pregibon, Daryl, and Christos Faloutsos, Data-Driven Evolution of
Data Mining Algorithms, Communications of the ACM, 45 8, August 2002.