FAQ on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

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Frequently Asked Questions

• C4.5 algorithm.
• Classification and prediction - what is the difference?
• Data Mining Tool Comparison.
• Datasets for Data Mining - where to find them?
• In-database data mining - advantages and disadvantages.
• Is Data Mining a Science?
• Job Titles in Data mining.
• Precision and Recall Calculation.
• Predictive Analytics and Information Retrieval (IR) - how do they differ?
• Programming frameworks for web mining
• Simple data mining case studies?
• Software for Data Mining.
• Stochastic gradient boosting
• What is data mining?
• What is the difference between data mining and statistics?
• What are the golden rules for data mining?