Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Preliminary Remarks When you think about it, almost everything on this planet either is a fluid or moves within or near a fluid. -Frank M. White What is a fluid?
◼ Basic concepts and a road map ◼ Efficient and scalable frequent itemset mining methods ◼ Mining various kinds of association rules ◼ From association mining to correlation analysis ◼ Constraint-based association mining ◼ Summary
◼ Why Data Mining? ◼ What Is Data Mining? ◼ A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining ◼ What Kinds of Data Can Be Mined? ◼ What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined? ◼ What Kinds of Technologies Are Used? ◼ What Kinds of Applications Are Targeted? ◼ Major Issues in Data Mining ◼ A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society ◼ Summary