Why Is Freq. Pattern Mining Important? Discloses an intrinsic and important property of data sets Forms the foundation for many essential data mining tasks Association, correlation, and causality analysis Sequential, structural(e.g,, sub-graph) patterns Pattern analysis in spatiotemporal, multimedia time series and stream data Classification associative classification Cluster analysis: frequent pattern-based clustering Data warehousing iceberg cube and cube -gradient Semantic data compression fascicles Broad applications February 4, 2021 Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 5February 4, 2021 Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 5 Why Is Freq. Pattern Mining Important? ◼ Discloses an intrinsic and important property of data sets ◼ Forms the foundation for many essential data mining tasks ◼ Association, correlation, and causality analysis ◼ Sequential, structural (e.g., sub-graph) patterns ◼ Pattern analysis in spatiotemporal, multimedia, time￾series, and stream data ◼ Classification: associative classification ◼ Cluster analysis: frequent pattern-based clustering ◼ Data warehousing: iceberg cube and cube-gradient ◼ Semantic data compression: fascicles ◼ Broad applications