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Charakterystyka wybranych etapów procedury przygotowania danych do budowy modeli data mining
The Data Preparation Process for Building Data Mining Models

Author(s): Mariusz Łapczyński
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
Keywords: data mining; data preparation; data preprocessing

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the data preparation process that serves as the initial step in building data mining models. Following a short introduction to the stages of data pre-processing procedure, the main rules for creating derived variables are presented. The author describes ways of handling time variables and categorical variables and briefly looks at problems generated by the imprecise definition of variables, missing values and outliers.

  • Issue Year: 884/2012
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 129-141
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish