Re: DM: Visualization

[Jose BORGES]

Sandra

Data mining is a step in the knoeledge discovery (KDD) process.
The process of KDD is said to have the following steps:

Data selection
Data Preprocessing
Data Transformation
Data Mining  (search for patterns of interest)
Interpretation/Ealuation


Have a look at the following reference.

@INPROCEEDINGS{Fayyad1996b,
        TITLE = "From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery: An 
Overview",
        AUTHOR = "Usama M. Fayyad and Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and 
Padhraic 
Smy
th",
        EDITOR = "Usama M. Fayyad and Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and 
Padhraic 
Smy
th and Ramasamy Uthurusamy",
        BOOKTITLE = "Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining",
        PUBLISHER = "AAAI/MIT Press",
        PAGES = "1--34",
        YEAR = "1996" }
Regards
Jose

>Dear ladies and gentlemen,
>
>I am a student of the University of Karlsruhe and I am interested in
>getting some information about data mining or KDD in general.
>These are my questions:
>(1) What is the difference between data mining an KDD (knowledge
>discovery of databases)?
>(2) Are there any companies which take part in this list of 
>discussion
>and use special tools for visualization of large databases ? What 
>kind
>of tools are there or what else do you prefer for presentation ?
>(3) Are there any other systems than VisDB existing (that's the one 
>I'm
>working on)?
>(4) Does anyone know good literature about visualization in general?
>
>I would be very glad if my questions will be answered soon!
>Thanks!
>
>Sandra Poprawski