Assignment 1: What do you think data mining is for?

Start date 16 January, due 23 January beginning of class.

Identify a problem from your own experience that you think would be amenable to data mining. Describe:

• What the data is.
• What type of benefit you might hope to get from data mining.
• What type of data mining (classification, clustering, etc.) you think would be relevant.
• Name one type of data mining that you think would not be relevant, and describe briefly why not.

For each, illustrate with an example, e.g., if you think clustering is relevant, describe what you think a likely cluster might contain and what the real-world meaning would be.

I expect one to two pages of 11 point single-spaced typeset text - you aren't writing a paper, but it isn't short answer either.

Turning in assignment

Electronic submission preferred. Please email to . or (preferably) use the turnin command (on mentor.ics.purdue.edu, turnin -c cs490d -p asn1 filename). Pdf is the safest for capturing non-text. Hard copy is acceptable, please hand in at the beginning of class.