Chapter 3: Data Preprocessing Data Preprocessing: An Overview Data Quality Major tasks in Data Preprocessing Data Cleaning Data Integration Data Reduction Data transformation and data discretization Summary
1 Chapter 3: Data Preprocessing ◼ Data Preprocessing: An Overview ◼ Data Quality ◼ Major Tasks in Data Preprocessing ◼ Data Cleaning ◼ Data Integration ◼ Data Reduction ◼ Data Transformation and Data Discretization ◼ Summary
Why Data Preprocessing? Data in the real world is dirty incomplete: lacking attribute values, lacking certain attributes of interest, or containing only aggregate data a e.g. occupation= mm a noisy: containing errors or outliers aeg, salary=-10″ inconsistent: containing discrepancies in codes or names e.g. Age=42 Birthday=03/07/1997 e.g Was rating 1,213 now rating A, B,c e.g. discrepancy between duplicate records
2 Why Data Preprocessing? ◼ Data in the real world is dirty ◼ incomplete: lacking attribute values, lacking certain attributes of interest, or containing only aggregate data ◼ e.g., occupation=“ ” ◼ noisy: containing errors or outliers ◼ e.g., Salary=“-10” ◼ inconsistent: containing discrepancies in codes or names ◼ 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
Why ls Data Dirty? incomplete data may come from Not applicable"data value when collected Different considerations between the time when the data was collected and when it is analyzed Human/hardware/software problems Noisy data(incorrect values) may come from Faulty data collection instruments Human or computer error at data entry Errors in data transmission Inconsistent data may come from Different data sources Functional dependency violation(e. g. modify some linked data) Duplicate records also need data cleaning
3 Why Is Data Dirty? ◼ Incomplete data may come from ◼ “Not applicable” data value when collected ◼ Different considerations between the time when the data was collected and when it is analyzed. ◼ Human/hardware/software problems ◼ Noisy data (incorrect values) may come from ◼ Faulty data collection instruments ◼ Human or computer error at data entry ◼ Errors in data transmission ◼ Inconsistent data may come from ◼ Different data sources ◼ Functional dependency violation (e.g., modify some linked data) ◼ Duplicate records also need data cleaning
Data Quality: Why Preprocess the data? Measures for data quality: A multidimensional view Accuracy: correct or wrong accurate or not Completeness: not recorded, unavailable, Consistency: some modified but some not, dangling Timeliness: timely update? Believability: how trustable the data are correct? Interpretability how easily the data can be understood?
4 Data Quality: Why Preprocess the Data? ◼ Measures for data quality: A multidimensional view ◼ Accuracy: correct or wrong, accurate or not ◼ Completeness: not recorded, unavailable, … ◼ Consistency: some modified but some not, dangling, … ◼ Timeliness: timely update? ◼ Believability: how trustable the data are correct? ◼ Interpretability: how easily the data can be understood?
Major Tasks in Data Preprocessing Data cleaning Fill in missing values, smooth noisy data, identify or remove outliers and resolve inconsistencies Data integration Integration of multiple databases data cubes or files Data reduction Dimensionality reduction Numerosity reduction Data compression Data transformation and data discretization normalization Concept hierarchy generation
5 Major Tasks in Data Preprocessing ◼ Data cleaning ◼ Fill in missing values, smooth noisy data, identify or remove outliers, and resolve inconsistencies ◼ Data integration ◼ Integration of multiple databases, data cubes, or files ◼ Data reduction ◼ Dimensionality reduction ◼ Numerosity reduction ◼ Data compression ◼ Data transformation and data discretization ◼ Normalization ◼ Concept hierarchy generation
Data Cleaning Data in the real world is dirty: Lots of potentially incorrect data, e.g instrument faulty human or computer error transmission error incomplete: lacking attribute values lacking certain attributes of interest, or containing only aggregate data e.g., Occupation="(missing data) noisy: containing noise errors or outliers e.g., Salary--10"(an error) inconsistent: containing discrepancies in codes or names, e. g nAge=42",Bita="03/07/2010″ Was rating 1,2,3 now rating", B, c discrepancy between duplicate records Intentional(e. g disguised missing data) Jan. 1 as everyone' s birthday?
6 Data Cleaning ◼ Data in the Real World Is Dirty: Lots of potentially incorrect data, e.g., instrument faulty, human or computer error, transmission error ◼ incomplete: lacking attribute values, lacking certain attributes of interest, or containing only aggregate data ◼ e.g., Occupation=“ ” (missing data) ◼ noisy: containing noise, errors, or outliers ◼ e.g., Salary=“−10” (an error) ◼ inconsistent: containing discrepancies in codes or names, e.g., ◼ Age=“42”, Birthday=“03/07/2010” ◼ Was rating “1, 2, 3”, now rating “A, B, C” ◼ discrepancy between duplicate records ◼ Intentional (e.g., disguised missing data) ◼ Jan. 1 as everyone’s birthday?
Incomplete Missing) Data Data is not always available E.g., many tuples have no recorded value for several attributes such as customer income in sales data Missing data may be due to equipment malfunction inconsistent with other recorded data and thus deleted data not entered due to misunderstanding 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
7 Incomplete (Missing) Data ◼ Data is not always available ◼ E.g., many tuples have no recorded value for several attributes, such as customer income in sales data ◼ Missing data may be due to ◼ equipment malfunction ◼ inconsistent with other recorded data and thus deleted ◼ data not entered due to misunderstanding ◼ 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
How to Handle missing Data? Ignore the tuple: usually done when class label is missing (when doing classification-not effective when the % 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
8 How to Handle Missing Data? ◼ Ignore the tuple: usually done when class label is missing (when doing classification)—not effective when the % 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
Noisy Data Noise: random error or variance in a measured variable Incorrect attribute values may be due to faulty data collection instruments data entry problems data transmission problems a technology limitation inconsistency in naming convention Other data problems which require data cleaning duplicate records incomplete data inconsistent data
9 Noisy Data ◼ Noise: random error or variance in a measured variable ◼ Incorrect attribute values may be due to ◼ faulty data collection instruments ◼ data entry problems ◼ data transmission problems ◼ technology limitation ◼ inconsistency in naming convention ◼ Other data problems which require data cleaning ◼ duplicate records ◼ incomplete data ◼ inconsistent data
How to Handle noisy Data? Binning first sort data and partition into(equal-frequency bins then one can smooth by bin means smooth by bin median, smooth by bin boundaries etc Regression smooth by fitting the data into regression functions Clustering detect and remove outliers Combined computer and human inspection detect suspicious values and check by human(e. g deal with possible outliers)
10 How to Handle Noisy Data? ◼ Binning ◼ first sort data and partition into (equal-frequency) bins ◼ then one can smooth by bin means, smooth by bin median, smooth by bin boundaries, etc. ◼ Regression ◼ smooth by fitting the data into regression functions ◼ Clustering ◼ detect and remove outliers ◼ Combined computer and human inspection ◼ detect suspicious values and check by human (e.g., deal with possible outliers)
