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Data Mining: 
Concepts and Techniques 
— Chapter 2 — 
Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Simon Fraser University 
©2013 Han, Kamber, and Pei. All rights reserved.
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Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Data 
 Data Objects and Attribute Types 
 Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data 
 Data Visualization 
 Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity 
 Summary
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Types of Data Sets 
 Record 
 Relational records 
 Data matrix, e.g., numerical matrix, 
crosstabs 
 Document data: text documents: term-frequency 
vector 
 Transaction data 
 Graph and network 
 World Wide Web 
 Social or information networks 
 Molecular Structures 
 Ordered 
 Video data: sequence of images 
 Temporal data: time-series 
 Sequential Data: transaction sequences 
 Genetic sequence data 
 Spatial, image and multimedia: 
 Spatial data: maps 
 Image data: 
 Video data: 
Document 1 
season 
timeout 
lost 
wi 
n 
game 
score 
ball 
pla 
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coach 
team 
Document 2 
Document 3 
3 0 5 0 2 6 0 2 0 2 
0 
0 
7 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 
1 0 0 1 2 2 0 3 0 
TID Items 
1 Bread, Coke, Milk 
2 Beer, Bread 
3 Beer, Coke, Diaper, Milk 
4 Beer, Bread, Diaper, Milk 
5 Coke, Diaper, Milk
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Important Characteristics of Structured 
Data 
 Dimensionality 
 Curse of dimensionality 
 Sparsity 
 Only presence counts 
 Resolution 
 Patterns depend on the scale 
 Distribution 
 Centrality and dispersion
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Data Objects 
 Data sets are made up of data objects. 
 A data object represents an entity. 
 Examples: 
 sales database: customers, store items, sales 
 medical database: patients, treatments 
 university database: students, professors, courses 
 Also called samples , examples, instances, data points, objects, 
tuples. 
 Data objects are described by attributes. 
 Database rows -> data objects; columns ->attributes.
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Attributes 
 Attribute (or dimensions, features, variables): a data 
field, representing a characteristic or feature of a data 
object. 
 E.g., customer _ID, name, address 
 Types: 
 Nominal 
 Binary 
 Numeric: quantitative 
 Interval-scaled 
 Ratio-scaled
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Attribute Types 
 Nominal: categories, states, or “names of things” 
 Hair_color = {auburn, black, blond, brown, grey, red, white} 
 marital status, occupation, ID numbers, zip codes 
 Binary 
 Nominal attribute with only 2 states (0 and 1) 
 Symmetric binary: both outcomes equally important 
 e.g., gender 
 Asymmetric binary: outcomes not equally important. 
 e.g., medical test (positive vs. negative) 
 Convention: assign 1 to most important outcome (e.g., HIV 
positive) 
 Ordinal 
 Values have a meaningful order (ranking) but magnitude between 
successive values is not known. 
 Size = {small, medium, large}, grades, army rankings
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Numeric Attribute Types 
 Quantity (integer or real-valued) 
 Interval 
 Measured on a scale of equal-sized units 
 Values have order 
 E.g., temperature in C˚or F˚, calendar dates 
 No true zero-point 
 Ratio 
 Inherent zero-point 
 We can speak of values as being an order of magnitude 
larger than the unit of measurement (10 K˚ is twice as 
high as 5 K˚). 
 e.g., temperature in Kelvin, length, counts, 
monetary quantities
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Discrete vs. Continuous Attributes 
 Discrete Attribute 
 Has only a finite or countably infinite set of values 
 E.g., zip codes, profession, or the set of words in a 
collection of documents 
 Sometimes, represented as integer variables 
 Note: Binary attributes are a special case of discrete 
attributes 
 Continuous Attribute 
 Has real numbers as attribute values 
 E.g., temperature, height, or weight 
 Practically, real values can only be measured and 
represented using a finite number of digits 
 Continuous attributes are typically represented as floating-point 
variables
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Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Data 
 Data Objects and Attribute Types 
 Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data 
 Data Visualization 
 Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity 
 Summary
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Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data 
 Motivation 
 To better understand the data: central tendency, variation 
and spread 
 Data dispersion characteristics 
 median, max, min, quantiles, outliers, variance, etc. 
 Numerical dimensions correspond to sorted intervals 
 Data dispersion: analyzed with multiple granularities of 
precision 
 Boxplot or quantile analysis on sorted intervals 
 Dispersion analysis on computed measures 
 Folding measures into numerical dimensions 
 Boxplot or quantile analysis on the transformed cube
x    
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Measuring the Central Tendency 
 Mean (algebraic measure) (sample vs. population): 
Note: n is sample size and N is population size. 
 Weighted arithmetic mean: 
 Trimmed mean: chopping extreme values 
 Median: 
  n 
 Middle value if odd number of values, or average of the 
middle two values otherwise 
 Estimated by interpolation (for grouped data): 
 Mode 
n freq 
 Value that occurs most frequently in the data 
 Unimodal, bimodal, trimodal 
 Empirical formula: 
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Symmetric vs. Skewed 
Data 
 Median, mean and mode of 
symmetric, positively and negatively 
skewed data 
symmetric 
positively skewed negatively skewed 
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Measuring the Dispersion of Data 
 Quartiles, outliers and boxplots 
 Quartiles: Q1 (25th percentile), Q3 (75th percentile) 
 Inter-quartile range: IQR = Q3 –Q1 
 Five number summary: min, Q1, median,Q3, max 
 Boxplot: ends of the box are the quartiles; median is marked; add whiskers, 
and plot outliers individually 
 Outlier: usually, a value higher/lower than 1.5 x IQR 
 Variance and standard deviation (sample: s, population: σ) 
 Variance: (algebraic, scalable computation) 
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Boxplot Analysis 
 Five-number summary of a distribution 
 Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, Maximum 
 Boxplot 
 Data is represented with a box 
 The ends of the box are at the first and third 
quartiles, i.e., the height of the box is IQR 
 The median is marked by a line within the box 
 Whiskers: two lines outside the box extended 
to Minimum and Maximum 
 Outliers: points beyond a specified outlier 
threshold, plotted individually
Visualization of Data Dispersion: 3-D Boxplots 
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Properties of Normal Distribution Curve 
 The normal (distribution) curve 
 From μ–σ to μ+σ: contains about 68% of the measurements 
(μ: mean, σ: standard deviation) 
 From μ–2σ to μ+2σ: contains about 95% of it 
 From μ–3σ to μ+3σ: contains about 99.7% of it
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Graphic Displays of Basic Statistical 
Descriptions 
 Boxplot: graphic display of five-number summary 
 Histogram: x-axis are values, y-axis repres. frequencies 
 Quantile plot: each value xi is paired with fi indicating that 
approximately 100 fi % of data are  xi 
 Quantile-quantile (q-q) plot: graphs the quantiles of one 
univariant distribution against the corresponding quantiles of 
another 
 Scatter plot: each pair of values is a pair of coordinates and 
plotted as points in the plane
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Histogram Analysis 
 Histogram: Graph display of tabulated 
frequencies, shown as bars 
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 It shows what proportion of cases fall 
into each of several categories 
 Differs from a bar chart in that it is 
the area of the bar that denotes the 
value, not the height as in bar charts, 
a crucial distinction when the 
categories are not of uniform width 
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25 
20 
15 
10 
5 
 The categories are usually specified as 
non-overlapping intervals of some 
variable. The categories (bars) must 
be adjacent 
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Histograms Often Tell More than Boxplots 
 The two histograms 
shown in the left may 
have the same boxplot 
representation 
 The same values for: 
min, Q1, median, Q3, 
max 
 But they have rather 
different data 
distributions
Quantile Plot 
 Displays all of the data (allowing the user to assess both the 
overall behavior and unusual occurrences) 
 Plots quantile information 
 For a data xi data sorted in increasing order, fi indicates that 
approximately 100 fi% of the data are below or equal to the 
value xi 
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Quantile-Quantile (Q-Q) Plot 
 Graphs the quantiles of one univariate distribution against the 
corresponding quantiles of another 
 View: Is there is a shift in going from one distribution to another? 
 Example shows unit price of items sold at Branch 1 vs. Branch 2 for 
each quantile. Unit prices of items sold at Branch 1 tend to be lower 
than those at Branch 2.
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Scatter plot 
 Provides a first look at bivariate data to see clusters of points, 
outliers, etc 
 Each pair of values is treated as a pair of coordinates and 
plotted as points in the plane
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Positively and Negatively Correlated Data 
 The left half fragment is positively 
correlated 
 The right half is negative correlated
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Uncorrelated Data
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Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Data 
 Data Objects and Attribute Types 
 Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data 
 Data Visualization 
 Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity 
 Summary
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Data Visualization 
 Why data visualization? 
 Gain insight into an information space by mapping data onto graphical 
primitives 
 Provide qualitative overview of large data sets 
 Search for patterns, trends, structure, irregularities, relationships among 
data 
 Help find interesting regions and suitable parameters for further 
quantitative analysis 
 Provide a visual proof of computer representations derived 
 Categorization of visualization methods: 
 Pixel-oriented visualization techniques 
 Geometric projection visualization techniques 
 Icon-based visualization techniques 
 Hierarchical visualization techniques 
 Visualizing complex data and relations
Pixel-Oriented Visualization Techniques 
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 For a data set of m dimensions, create m windows on the screen, one 
for each dimension 
 The m dimension values of a record are mapped to m pixels at the 
corresponding positions in the windows 
 The colors of the pixels reflect the corresponding values 
(a) Income (b) Credit Limit (c) transaction volume (d) age
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Laying Out Pixels in Circle Segments 
 To save space and show the connections among multiple dimensions, 
space filling is often done in a circle segment 
(a) Representing a data record 
in circle segment 
(b) Laying out pixels in circle segment 
Representing about 265,000 50-dimensional Data Items 
with the ‘Circle Segments’ Technique
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Geometric Projection Visualization 
Techniques 
 Visualization of geometric transformations and projections of 
the data 
 Methods 
 Direct visualization 
 Scatterplot and scatterplot matrices 
 Landscapes 
 Projection pursuit technique: Help users find meaningful 
projections of multidimensional data 
 Prosection views 
 Hyperslice 
 Parallel coordinates
Direct Data Visualization 
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Ribbons with Twists Based on Vorticity
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Scatterplot Matrices 
Used by ermission of M. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
Matrix of scatterplots (x-y-diagrams) of the k-dim. data [total of (k2/2-k) scatterplots]
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news articles 
visualized as 
a landscape 
Used by permission of B. Wright, Visible Decisions Inc. 
Landscapes 
 Visualization of the data as perspective landscape 
 The data needs to be transformed into a (possibly artificial) 2D spatial 
representation which preserves the characteristics of the data
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Parallel Coordinates 
 n equidistant axes which are parallel to one of the screen axes and 
 The axes are scaled to the [minimum, maximum]: range of the 
 Every data item corresponds to a polygonal line which intersects each of the 
axes at the point which corresponds to the value for the attribute 
• • • 
correspond to the attributes 
corresponding attribute 
Attr. 1 Attr . 2 Attr. 3 Attr. k
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Parallel Coordinates of a Data Set
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Icon-Based Visualization Techniques 
 Visualization of the data values as features of icons 
 Typical visualization methods 
 Chernoff Faces 
 Stick Figures 
 General techniques 
 Shape coding: Use shape to represent certain information 
encoding 
 Color icons: Use color icons to encode more information 
 Tile bars: Use small icons to represent the relevant feature 
vectors in document retrieval
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Chernoff Faces 
 A way to display variables on a two-dimensional surface, e.g., let x be 
eyebrow slant, y be eye size, z be nose length, etc. 
 The figure shows faces produced using 10 characteristics--head eccentricity, 
eye size, eye spacing, eye eccentricity, pupil size, eyebrow slant, nose size, 
mouth shape, mouth size, and mouth opening): Each assigned one of 10 
possible values, generated using Mathematica (S. Dickson) 
 REFERENCE: Gonick, L. and Smith, W. The 
Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper 
Perennial, p. 212, 1993 
 Weisstein, Eric W. "Chernoff Face." From 
MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. 
mathworld.wolfram.com/ChernoffFace.html
A census data 
figure showing 
age, income, 
gender, 
education, etc. 
Stick Figure 
A 5-piece stick 
figure (1 body 
and 4 limbs w. 
different 
angle/length) 
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Hierarchical Visualization Techniques 
 Visualization of the data using a hierarchical 
partitioning into subspaces 
 Methods 
 Dimensional Stacking 
 Worlds-within-Worlds 
 Tree-Map 
 Cone Trees 
 InfoCube
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Dimensional Stacking 
 Partitioning of the n-dimensional attribute space in 2-D 
subspaces, which are ‘stacked’ into each other 
 Partitioning of the attribute value ranges into classes. The 
important attributes should be used on the outer levels. 
 Adequate for data with ordinal attributes of low cardinality 
 But, difficult to display more than nine dimensions 
 Important to map dimensions appropriately
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Dimensional Stacking 
Used by permission of M. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
Visualization of oil mining data with longitude and latitude mapped to the 
outer x-, y-axes and ore grade and depth mapped to the inner x-, y-axes
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Worlds-within-Worlds 
 Assign the function and two most important parameters to innermost 
world 
 Fix all other parameters at constant values - draw other (1 or 2 or 3 
dimensional worlds choosing these as the axes) 
 Software that uses this paradigm 
 N–vision: Dynamic 
interaction through data 
glove and stereo displays, 
including rotation, scaling 
(inner) and translation 
(inner/outer) 
 Auto Visual: Static 
interaction by means of 
queries
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Tree-Map 
 Screen-filling method which uses a hierarchical partitioning of 
the screen into regions depending on the attribute values 
 The x- and y-dimension of the screen are partitioned alternately 
according to the attribute values (classes) 
Schneiderman@UMD: Tree-Map of a File System Schneiderman@UMD: Tree-Map to support 
large data sets of a million items
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InfoCube 
 A 3-D visualization technique where hierarchical 
information is displayed as nested semi-transparent 
cubes 
 The outermost cubes correspond to the top level data, 
while the subnodes or the lower level data are 
represented as smaller cubes inside the outermost 
cubes, and so on
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Three-D Cone Trees 
 3D cone tree visualization technique works 
well for up to a thousand nodes or so 
 First build a 2D circle tree that arranges its 
nodes in concentric circles centered on the 
root node 
 Cannot avoid overlaps when projected to 2D 
 G. Robertson, J. Mackinlay, S. Card. “Cone 
Trees: Animated 3D Visualizations of 
Hierarchical Information”, ACM SIGCHI'91 
 Graph from Nadeau Software Consulting 
website: Visualize a social network data set 
that models the way an infection spreads from 
one person to the next
Visualizing Complex Data and Relations 
 Visualizing non-numerical data: text and social networks 
 Tag cloud: visualizing user-generated tags 
 The importance of tag is 
represented by font 
size/color 
 Besides text data, there are 
also methods to visualize 
relationships, such as 
visualizing social networks 
Newsmap: Google News Stories in 2005
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Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Data 
 Data Objects and Attribute Types 
 Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data 
 Data Visualization 
 Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity 
 Summary
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Similarity and Dissimilarity 
 Similarity 
 Numerical measure of how alike two data objects are 
 Value is higher when objects are more alike 
 Often falls in the range [0,1] 
 Dissimilarity (e.g., distance) 
 Numerical measure of how different two data objects are 
 Lower when objects are more alike 
 Minimum dissimilarity is often 0 
 Upper limit varies 
 Proximity refers to a similarity or dissimilarity
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Data Matrix and Dissimilarity Matrix 
 Data matrix 
 n data points with p 
dimensions 
 Two modes 
 Dissimilarity matrix 
 n data points, but 
registers only the 
distance 
 A triangular matrix 
 Single mode 
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Proximity Measure for Nominal Attributes 
 Can take 2 or more states, e.g., red, yellow, blue, 
green (generalization of a binary attribute) 
 Method 1: Simple matching 
 m: # of matches, p: total # of variables 
p  
m 
p 
d i j 
( , ) 
 Method 2: Use a large number of binary attributes 
 creating a new binary attribute for each of the M 
nominal states
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Proximity Measure for Binary Attributes 
 A contingency table for binary data 
 Distance measure for symmetric 
binary variables: 
 Distance measure for asymmetric 
binary variables: 
 Jaccard coefficient (similarity 
measure for asymmetric binary 
variables): 
Object i 
 Note: Jaccard coefficient is the same as “coherence”: 
Object j
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Dissimilarity between Binary Variables 
 Example 
Name Gender Fever Cough Test-1 Test-2 Test-3 Test-4 
Jack M Y N P N N N 
Mary F Y N P N P N 
Jim M Y P N N N N 
 Gender is a symmetric attribute 
 The remaining attributes are asymmetric binary 
 Let the values Y and P be 1, and the value N 0 
0.75 
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0 1 
 
1 1 
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1 1 2 
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Standardizing Numeric Data 
 Z-score: 
 
 X: raw score to be standardized, μ: mean of the population, σ: standard 
deviation 
 the distance between the raw score and the population mean in units 
of the standard deviation 
 negative when the raw score is below the mean, “+” when above 
 An alternative way: Calculate the mean absolute deviation 
where 
1(| | | | ... | |) 
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 standardized measure (z-score): 
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m 
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z 
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deviation 
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Example: 
Data Matrix and Dissimilarity Matrix 
Data Matrix 
point attribute1 attribute2 
x1 1 2 
x2 3 5 
x3 2 0 
x4 4 5 
Dissimilarity Matrix 
(with Euclidean Distance) 
x1 x2 x3 x4 
x1 0 
x2 3.61 0 
x3 2.24 5.1 0 
x4 4.24 1 5.39 0
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Distance on Numeric Data: Minkowski 
Distance 
 Minkowski distance: A popular distance measure 
where i = (xi1, xi2, …, xip) and j = (xj1, xj2, …, xjp) are two p-dimensional 
data objects, and h is the order (the distance 
so defined is also called L-h norm) 
 Properties 
 d(i, j) > 0 if i ≠ j, and d(i, i) = 0 (Positive definiteness) 
 d(i, j) = d(j, i) (Symmetry) 
 d(i, j)  d(i, k) + d(k, j) (Triangle Inequality) 
 A distance that satisfies these properties is a metric
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Special Cases of Minkowski Distance 
 h = 1: Manhattan (city block, L1 norm) distance 
 E.g., the Hamming distance: the number of bits that are different 
between two binary vectors 
x 
d i j  x   x 
   x 
 
( , ) | | | | ... | | 
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( , ) (| | | | ... | | ) 2 2 
d i j  x   x 
   x 
 
 h  . “supremum” (Lmax norm, L norm) distance. 
x 
 This is the maximum difference between any component (attribute) 
of the vectors 
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Example: Minkowski Distance 
Dissimilarity Matrices 
point attribute 1 attribute 2 
x1 1 2 
x2 3 5 
x3 2 0 
x4 4 5 
Manhattan (L1) 
L x1 x2 x3 x4 
x1 0 
x2 5 0 
x3 3 6 0 
x4 6 1 7 0 
Euclidean (L2) 
L2 x1 x2 x3 x4 
x1 0 
x2 3.61 0 
x3 2.24 5.1 0 
x4 4.24 1 5.39 0 
Supremum 
L x1 x2 x3 x4 
x1 0 
x2 3 0 
x3 2 5 0 
x4 3 1 5 0
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Ordinal Variables 
 An ordinal variable can be discrete or continuous 
 Order is important, e.g., rank 
 Can be treated like interval-scaled 
 replace xif by their rank 
{1,..., } if f r  M 
 map the range of each variable onto [0, 1] by replacing i-th 
object in the f-th variable by 
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if M 
 compute the dissimilarity using methods for interval-scaled 
variables
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Attributes of Mixed Type 
 A database may contain all attribute types 
 Nominal, symmetric binary, asymmetric binary, numeric, 
ordinal 
 One may use a weighted formula to combine their effects 
 f is binary or nominal: 
dij 
p 
f d 
(f) = 0 if xif = xjf , or dij 
( ) ( ) 
 
(f) = 1 otherwise 
 f is numeric: use the normalized distance 
 f is ordinal 
 Compute ranks rif and 
 Treat zif as interval-scaled 
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Cosine Similarity 
 A document can be represented by thousands of attributes, each recording the 
frequency of a particular word (such as keywords) or phrase in the document. 
 Other vector objects: gene features in micro-arrays, … 
 Applications: information retrieval, biologic taxonomy, gene feature mapping, 
... 
 Cosine measure: If d1 and d2 are two vectors (e.g., term-frequency vectors), 
then 
cos(d1, d2) = (d1  d2) /||d1|| ||d2|| , 
where  indicates vector dot product, ||d||: the length of vector d
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Example: Cosine Similarity 
 cos(d1, d2) = (d1  d2) /||d1|| ||d2|| , 
where  indicates vector dot product, ||d|: the length of vector d 
 Ex: Find the similarity between documents 1 and 2. 
d1 = (5, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0) 
d2 = (3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1) 
d1d2 = 5*3+0*0+3*2+0*0+2*1+0*1+0*1+2*1+0*0+0*1 = 25 
||d1||= (5*5+0*0+3*3+0*0+2*2+0*0+0*0+2*2+0*0+0*0)0.5=(42)0.5 = 6.481 
||d2||= (3*3+0*0+2*2+0*0+1*1+1*1+0*0+1*1+0*0+1*1)0.5=(17)0.5 = 4.12 
cos(d1, d2 ) = 0.94
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KL Divergence: Comparing Two 
Probability Distributions 
 The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence: Measure the difference between two 
probability distributions over the same variable x 
 From information theory, closely related to relative entropy, information 
divergence, and information for discrimination 
 DKL(p(x) || q(x)): divergence of q(x) from p(x), measuring the information lost 
when q(x) is used to approximate p(x) 
 Discrete form: 
 The KL divergence measures the expected number of extra bits required to 
code samples from p(x) (“true” distribution) when using a code based on q(x), 
which represents a theory, model, description, or approximation of p(x) 
 Its continuous form: 
 The KL divergence: not a distance measure, not a metric: asymmetric, not 
satisfy triangular inequality
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How to Compute 
the KL Divergence? 
 Base on the formula, DKL(P,Q) ≥ 0 and DKL(P || Q) = 0 if and only if P = Q. 
 How about when p = 0 or q = 0? 
 limp→0 p log p = 0 
 when p != 0 but q = 0, DKL(p || q) is defined as ∞, i.e., if one event e is 
possible (i.e., p(e) > 0), and the other predicts it is absolutely impossible 
(i.e., q(e) = 0), then the two distributions are absolutely different 
 However, in practice, P and Q are derived from frequency distributions, not 
counting the possibility of unseen events. Thus smoothing is needed 
 Example: P : (a : 3/5, b : 1/5, c : 1/5). Q : (a : 5/9, b : 3/9, d : 1/9) 
 need to introduce a small constant ϵ, e.g., ϵ = 10−3 
 The sample set observed in P, SP = {a, b, c}, SQ = {a, b, d}, SU = {a, b, c, d} 
 Smoothing, add missing symbols to each distribution, with probability ϵ 
 P′ : (a : 3/5 − ϵ/3, b : 1/5 − ϵ/3, c : 1/5 − ϵ/3, d : ϵ) 
 Q′ : (a : 5/9 − ϵ/3, b : 3/9 − ϵ/3, c : ϵ, d : 1/9 − ϵ/3). 
 DKL(P’ || Q’) can be computed easily
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Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Data 
 Data Objects and Attribute Types 
 Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data 
 Data Visualization 
 Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity 
 Summary
Summary 
 Data attribute types: nominal, binary, ordinal, interval-scaled, 
ratio-scaled 
 Many types of data sets, e.g., numerical, text, graph, Web, 
image. 
 Gain insight into the data by: 
 Basic statistical data description: central tendency, 
dispersion, graphical displays 
 Data visualization: map data onto graphical primitives 
 Measure data similarity 
 Above steps are the beginning of data preprocessing 
 Many methods have been developed but still an active area of 
research
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    1 Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques — Chapter 2 — Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Simon Fraser University ©2013 Han, Kamber, and Pei. All rights reserved.
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    September 14, 2014Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 2
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    3 Chapter 2:Getting to Know Your Data  Data Objects and Attribute Types  Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data  Data Visualization  Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity  Summary
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    4 Types ofData Sets  Record  Relational records  Data matrix, e.g., numerical matrix, crosstabs  Document data: text documents: term-frequency vector  Transaction data  Graph and network  World Wide Web  Social or information networks  Molecular Structures  Ordered  Video data: sequence of images  Temporal data: time-series  Sequential Data: transaction sequences  Genetic sequence data  Spatial, image and multimedia:  Spatial data: maps  Image data:  Video data: Document 1 season timeout lost wi n game score ball pla y coach team Document 2 Document 3 3 0 5 0 2 6 0 2 0 2 0 0 7 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 3 0 TID Items 1 Bread, Coke, Milk 2 Beer, Bread 3 Beer, Coke, Diaper, Milk 4 Beer, Bread, Diaper, Milk 5 Coke, Diaper, Milk
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    5 Important Characteristicsof Structured Data  Dimensionality  Curse of dimensionality  Sparsity  Only presence counts  Resolution  Patterns depend on the scale  Distribution  Centrality and dispersion
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    6 Data Objects  Data sets are made up of data objects.  A data object represents an entity.  Examples:  sales database: customers, store items, sales  medical database: patients, treatments  university database: students, professors, courses  Also called samples , examples, instances, data points, objects, tuples.  Data objects are described by attributes.  Database rows -> data objects; columns ->attributes.
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    7 Attributes Attribute (or dimensions, features, variables): a data field, representing a characteristic or feature of a data object.  E.g., customer _ID, name, address  Types:  Nominal  Binary  Numeric: quantitative  Interval-scaled  Ratio-scaled
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    8 Attribute Types  Nominal: categories, states, or “names of things”  Hair_color = {auburn, black, blond, brown, grey, red, white}  marital status, occupation, ID numbers, zip codes  Binary  Nominal attribute with only 2 states (0 and 1)  Symmetric binary: both outcomes equally important  e.g., gender  Asymmetric binary: outcomes not equally important.  e.g., medical test (positive vs. negative)  Convention: assign 1 to most important outcome (e.g., HIV positive)  Ordinal  Values have a meaningful order (ranking) but magnitude between successive values is not known.  Size = {small, medium, large}, grades, army rankings
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    9 Numeric AttributeTypes  Quantity (integer or real-valued)  Interval  Measured on a scale of equal-sized units  Values have order  E.g., temperature in C˚or F˚, calendar dates  No true zero-point  Ratio  Inherent zero-point  We can speak of values as being an order of magnitude larger than the unit of measurement (10 K˚ is twice as high as 5 K˚).  e.g., temperature in Kelvin, length, counts, monetary quantities
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    10 Discrete vs.Continuous Attributes  Discrete Attribute  Has only a finite or countably infinite set of values  E.g., zip codes, profession, or the set of words in a collection of documents  Sometimes, represented as integer variables  Note: Binary attributes are a special case of discrete attributes  Continuous Attribute  Has real numbers as attribute values  E.g., temperature, height, or weight  Practically, real values can only be measured and represented using a finite number of digits  Continuous attributes are typically represented as floating-point variables
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    11 Chapter 2:Getting to Know Your Data  Data Objects and Attribute Types  Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data  Data Visualization  Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity  Summary
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    12 Basic StatisticalDescriptions of Data  Motivation  To better understand the data: central tendency, variation and spread  Data dispersion characteristics  median, max, min, quantiles, outliers, variance, etc.  Numerical dimensions correspond to sorted intervals  Data dispersion: analyzed with multiple granularities of precision  Boxplot or quantile analysis on sorted intervals  Dispersion analysis on computed measures  Folding measures into numerical dimensions  Boxplot or quantile analysis on the transformed cube
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    x   13 Measuring the Central Tendency  Mean (algebraic measure) (sample vs. population): Note: n is sample size and N is population size.  Weighted arithmetic mean:  Trimmed mean: chopping extreme values  Median:   n  Middle value if odd number of values, or average of the middle two values otherwise  Estimated by interpolation (for grouped data):  Mode n freq  Value that occurs most frequently in the data  Unimodal, bimodal, trimodal  Empirical formula:    n i i x n x 1 1  w x   i i n i i i w x 1 1 width freq median L median l ) / 2 ( ) ( 1     meanmode  3(meanmedian) N Median interval
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    Symmetric vs. Skewed Data  Median, mean and mode of symmetric, positively and negatively skewed data symmetric positively skewed negatively skewed September 14, 2014 Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 14
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    15 Measuring theDispersion of Data  Quartiles, outliers and boxplots  Quartiles: Q1 (25th percentile), Q3 (75th percentile)  Inter-quartile range: IQR = Q3 –Q1  Five number summary: min, Q1, median,Q3, max  Boxplot: ends of the box are the quartiles; median is marked; add whiskers, and plot outliers individually  Outlier: usually, a value higher/lower than 1.5 x IQR  Variance and standard deviation (sample: s, population: σ)  Variance: (algebraic, scalable computation) 2 2 2 2 ( ) ]            i i 2 2 1  Standard deviation s (or σ) is the square root of variance s2 (or σ2)  n i n i n i i x n x n x x n s 1 1 1 1 [ 1 1 ( ) 1 1 n         i i n i i x N x N 1 2 2 1 ( ) 1   
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    16 Boxplot Analysis  Five-number summary of a distribution  Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, Maximum  Boxplot  Data is represented with a box  The ends of the box are at the first and third quartiles, i.e., the height of the box is IQR  The median is marked by a line within the box  Whiskers: two lines outside the box extended to Minimum and Maximum  Outliers: points beyond a specified outlier threshold, plotted individually
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    18 Properties ofNormal Distribution Curve  The normal (distribution) curve  From μ–σ to μ+σ: contains about 68% of the measurements (μ: mean, σ: standard deviation)  From μ–2σ to μ+2σ: contains about 95% of it  From μ–3σ to μ+3σ: contains about 99.7% of it
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    19 Graphic Displaysof Basic Statistical Descriptions  Boxplot: graphic display of five-number summary  Histogram: x-axis are values, y-axis repres. frequencies  Quantile plot: each value xi is paired with fi indicating that approximately 100 fi % of data are  xi  Quantile-quantile (q-q) plot: graphs the quantiles of one univariant distribution against the corresponding quantiles of another  Scatter plot: each pair of values is a pair of coordinates and plotted as points in the plane
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    20 Histogram Analysis  Histogram: Graph display of tabulated frequencies, shown as bars 40 35  It shows what proportion of cases fall into each of several categories  Differs from a bar chart in that it is the area of the bar that denotes the value, not the height as in bar charts, a crucial distinction when the categories are not of uniform width 30 25 20 15 10 5  The categories are usually specified as non-overlapping intervals of some variable. The categories (bars) must be adjacent 0 10000 30000 50000 70000 90000
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    21 Histograms OftenTell More than Boxplots  The two histograms shown in the left may have the same boxplot representation  The same values for: min, Q1, median, Q3, max  But they have rather different data distributions
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    Quantile Plot Displays all of the data (allowing the user to assess both the overall behavior and unusual occurrences)  Plots quantile information  For a data xi data sorted in increasing order, fi indicates that approximately 100 fi% of the data are below or equal to the value xi Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 22
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    23 Quantile-Quantile (Q-Q)Plot  Graphs the quantiles of one univariate distribution against the corresponding quantiles of another  View: Is there is a shift in going from one distribution to another?  Example shows unit price of items sold at Branch 1 vs. Branch 2 for each quantile. Unit prices of items sold at Branch 1 tend to be lower than those at Branch 2.
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    24 Scatter plot  Provides a first look at bivariate data to see clusters of points, outliers, etc  Each pair of values is treated as a pair of coordinates and plotted as points in the plane
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    25 Positively andNegatively Correlated Data  The left half fragment is positively correlated  The right half is negative correlated
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    27 Chapter 2:Getting to Know Your Data  Data Objects and Attribute Types  Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data  Data Visualization  Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity  Summary
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    28 Data Visualization  Why data visualization?  Gain insight into an information space by mapping data onto graphical primitives  Provide qualitative overview of large data sets  Search for patterns, trends, structure, irregularities, relationships among data  Help find interesting regions and suitable parameters for further quantitative analysis  Provide a visual proof of computer representations derived  Categorization of visualization methods:  Pixel-oriented visualization techniques  Geometric projection visualization techniques  Icon-based visualization techniques  Hierarchical visualization techniques  Visualizing complex data and relations
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    Pixel-Oriented Visualization Techniques 29  For a data set of m dimensions, create m windows on the screen, one for each dimension  The m dimension values of a record are mapped to m pixels at the corresponding positions in the windows  The colors of the pixels reflect the corresponding values (a) Income (b) Credit Limit (c) transaction volume (d) age
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    30 Laying OutPixels in Circle Segments  To save space and show the connections among multiple dimensions, space filling is often done in a circle segment (a) Representing a data record in circle segment (b) Laying out pixels in circle segment Representing about 265,000 50-dimensional Data Items with the ‘Circle Segments’ Technique
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    31 Geometric ProjectionVisualization Techniques  Visualization of geometric transformations and projections of the data  Methods  Direct visualization  Scatterplot and scatterplot matrices  Landscapes  Projection pursuit technique: Help users find meaningful projections of multidimensional data  Prosection views  Hyperslice  Parallel coordinates
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    Direct Data Visualization Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 32 Ribbons with Twists Based on Vorticity
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    33 Scatterplot Matrices Used by ermission of M. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Matrix of scatterplots (x-y-diagrams) of the k-dim. data [total of (k2/2-k) scatterplots]
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    34 news articles visualized as a landscape Used by permission of B. Wright, Visible Decisions Inc. Landscapes  Visualization of the data as perspective landscape  The data needs to be transformed into a (possibly artificial) 2D spatial representation which preserves the characteristics of the data
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    35 Parallel Coordinates  n equidistant axes which are parallel to one of the screen axes and  The axes are scaled to the [minimum, maximum]: range of the  Every data item corresponds to a polygonal line which intersects each of the axes at the point which corresponds to the value for the attribute • • • correspond to the attributes corresponding attribute Attr. 1 Attr . 2 Attr. 3 Attr. k
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    37 Icon-Based VisualizationTechniques  Visualization of the data values as features of icons  Typical visualization methods  Chernoff Faces  Stick Figures  General techniques  Shape coding: Use shape to represent certain information encoding  Color icons: Use color icons to encode more information  Tile bars: Use small icons to represent the relevant feature vectors in document retrieval
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    38 Chernoff Faces  A way to display variables on a two-dimensional surface, e.g., let x be eyebrow slant, y be eye size, z be nose length, etc.  The figure shows faces produced using 10 characteristics--head eccentricity, eye size, eye spacing, eye eccentricity, pupil size, eyebrow slant, nose size, mouth shape, mouth size, and mouth opening): Each assigned one of 10 possible values, generated using Mathematica (S. Dickson)  REFERENCE: Gonick, L. and Smith, W. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper Perennial, p. 212, 1993  Weisstein, Eric W. "Chernoff Face." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. mathworld.wolfram.com/ChernoffFace.html
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    A census data figure showing age, income, gender, education, etc. Stick Figure A 5-piece stick figure (1 body and 4 limbs w. different angle/length) Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 39
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    40 Hierarchical VisualizationTechniques  Visualization of the data using a hierarchical partitioning into subspaces  Methods  Dimensional Stacking  Worlds-within-Worlds  Tree-Map  Cone Trees  InfoCube
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    41 Dimensional Stacking  Partitioning of the n-dimensional attribute space in 2-D subspaces, which are ‘stacked’ into each other  Partitioning of the attribute value ranges into classes. The important attributes should be used on the outer levels.  Adequate for data with ordinal attributes of low cardinality  But, difficult to display more than nine dimensions  Important to map dimensions appropriately
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    42 Dimensional Stacking Used by permission of M. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Visualization of oil mining data with longitude and latitude mapped to the outer x-, y-axes and ore grade and depth mapped to the inner x-, y-axes
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    43 Worlds-within-Worlds Assign the function and two most important parameters to innermost world  Fix all other parameters at constant values - draw other (1 or 2 or 3 dimensional worlds choosing these as the axes)  Software that uses this paradigm  N–vision: Dynamic interaction through data glove and stereo displays, including rotation, scaling (inner) and translation (inner/outer)  Auto Visual: Static interaction by means of queries
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    44 Tree-Map Screen-filling method which uses a hierarchical partitioning of the screen into regions depending on the attribute values  The x- and y-dimension of the screen are partitioned alternately according to the attribute values (classes) Schneiderman@UMD: Tree-Map of a File System Schneiderman@UMD: Tree-Map to support large data sets of a million items
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    45 InfoCube A 3-D visualization technique where hierarchical information is displayed as nested semi-transparent cubes  The outermost cubes correspond to the top level data, while the subnodes or the lower level data are represented as smaller cubes inside the outermost cubes, and so on
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    46 Three-D ConeTrees  3D cone tree visualization technique works well for up to a thousand nodes or so  First build a 2D circle tree that arranges its nodes in concentric circles centered on the root node  Cannot avoid overlaps when projected to 2D  G. Robertson, J. Mackinlay, S. Card. “Cone Trees: Animated 3D Visualizations of Hierarchical Information”, ACM SIGCHI'91  Graph from Nadeau Software Consulting website: Visualize a social network data set that models the way an infection spreads from one person to the next
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    Visualizing Complex Dataand Relations  Visualizing non-numerical data: text and social networks  Tag cloud: visualizing user-generated tags  The importance of tag is represented by font size/color  Besides text data, there are also methods to visualize relationships, such as visualizing social networks Newsmap: Google News Stories in 2005
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    48 Chapter 2:Getting to Know Your Data  Data Objects and Attribute Types  Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data  Data Visualization  Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity  Summary
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    49 Similarity andDissimilarity  Similarity  Numerical measure of how alike two data objects are  Value is higher when objects are more alike  Often falls in the range [0,1]  Dissimilarity (e.g., distance)  Numerical measure of how different two data objects are  Lower when objects are more alike  Minimum dissimilarity is often 0  Upper limit varies  Proximity refers to a similarity or dissimilarity
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    50 Data Matrixand Dissimilarity Matrix  Data matrix  n data points with p dimensions  Two modes  Dissimilarity matrix  n data points, but registers only the distance  A triangular matrix  Single mode                   x11 ... x1f ... x1p ... ... ... ... ... xi1 ... xif ... xip ... ... ... ... ... np ... x nf ... x n1 x                 0 d(2,1) 0 d(3,1 ) d (3,2) 0 : : : d n d n ... ( ,1) ( ,2) ... 0
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    51 Proximity Measurefor Nominal Attributes  Can take 2 or more states, e.g., red, yellow, blue, green (generalization of a binary attribute)  Method 1: Simple matching  m: # of matches, p: total # of variables p  m p d i j ( , )  Method 2: Use a large number of binary attributes  creating a new binary attribute for each of the M nominal states
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    52 Proximity Measurefor Binary Attributes  A contingency table for binary data  Distance measure for symmetric binary variables:  Distance measure for asymmetric binary variables:  Jaccard coefficient (similarity measure for asymmetric binary variables): Object i  Note: Jaccard coefficient is the same as “coherence”: Object j
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    53 Dissimilarity betweenBinary Variables  Example Name Gender Fever Cough Test-1 Test-2 Test-3 Test-4 Jack M Y N P N N N Mary F Y N P N P N Jim M Y P N N N N  Gender is a symmetric attribute  The remaining attributes are asymmetric binary  Let the values Y and P be 1, and the value N 0 0.75  0 1  1 1  1 2 1 1 2 d jack mary d jack jim ( , ) 0.67 1 1 1 ( , ) 0.33 2 0 1 ( , )             d jim mary
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    54 Standardizing NumericData  Z-score:   X: raw score to be standardized, μ: mean of the population, σ: standard deviation  the distance between the raw score and the population mean in units of the standard deviation  negative when the raw score is below the mean, “+” when above  An alternative way: Calculate the mean absolute deviation where 1(| | | | ... | |) f 1f f 2 f f nf f s  n x m  x m   x m  standardized measure (z-score): x  m if f z   Using mean absolute deviation is more robust than using standard deviation ... ). 1 2 1 f f f nf m  n(x  x   x f if s   x z
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    55 Example: DataMatrix and Dissimilarity Matrix Data Matrix point attribute1 attribute2 x1 1 2 x2 3 5 x3 2 0 x4 4 5 Dissimilarity Matrix (with Euclidean Distance) x1 x2 x3 x4 x1 0 x2 3.61 0 x3 2.24 5.1 0 x4 4.24 1 5.39 0
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    56 Distance onNumeric Data: Minkowski Distance  Minkowski distance: A popular distance measure where i = (xi1, xi2, …, xip) and j = (xj1, xj2, …, xjp) are two p-dimensional data objects, and h is the order (the distance so defined is also called L-h norm)  Properties  d(i, j) > 0 if i ≠ j, and d(i, i) = 0 (Positive definiteness)  d(i, j) = d(j, i) (Symmetry)  d(i, j)  d(i, k) + d(k, j) (Triangle Inequality)  A distance that satisfies these properties is a metric
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    57 Special Casesof Minkowski Distance  h = 1: Manhattan (city block, L1 norm) distance  E.g., the Hamming distance: the number of bits that are different between two binary vectors x d i j  x   x    x  ( , ) | | | | ... | |  h = 2: (L2 norm) Euclidean distance ( , ) (| | | | ... | | ) 2 2 d i j  x   x    x   h  . “supremum” (Lmax norm, L norm) distance. x  This is the maximum difference between any component (attribute) of the vectors 2 2 2 1 1 j i p jp x i j x i 1 1 2 j 2 i p jp x i j x i
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    58 Example: MinkowskiDistance Dissimilarity Matrices point attribute 1 attribute 2 x1 1 2 x2 3 5 x3 2 0 x4 4 5 Manhattan (L1) L x1 x2 x3 x4 x1 0 x2 5 0 x3 3 6 0 x4 6 1 7 0 Euclidean (L2) L2 x1 x2 x3 x4 x1 0 x2 3.61 0 x3 2.24 5.1 0 x4 4.24 1 5.39 0 Supremum L x1 x2 x3 x4 x1 0 x2 3 0 x3 2 5 0 x4 3 1 5 0
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    59 Ordinal Variables  An ordinal variable can be discrete or continuous  Order is important, e.g., rank  Can be treated like interval-scaled  replace xif by their rank {1,..., } if f r  M  map the range of each variable onto [0, 1] by replacing i-th object in the f-th variable by  1  1  f r if z if M  compute the dissimilarity using methods for interval-scaled variables
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    60 Attributes ofMixed Type  A database may contain all attribute types  Nominal, symmetric binary, asymmetric binary, numeric, ordinal  One may use a weighted formula to combine their effects  f is binary or nominal: dij p f d (f) = 0 if xif = xjf , or dij ( ) ( )  (f) = 1 otherwise  f is numeric: use the normalized distance  f is ordinal  Compute ranks rif and  Treat zif as interval-scaled ( ) 1 1 ( , ) f ij p f f ij f ij d i j       1  1   f r if M zif
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    61 Cosine Similarity  A document can be represented by thousands of attributes, each recording the frequency of a particular word (such as keywords) or phrase in the document.  Other vector objects: gene features in micro-arrays, …  Applications: information retrieval, biologic taxonomy, gene feature mapping, ...  Cosine measure: If d1 and d2 are two vectors (e.g., term-frequency vectors), then cos(d1, d2) = (d1  d2) /||d1|| ||d2|| , where  indicates vector dot product, ||d||: the length of vector d
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    62 Example: CosineSimilarity  cos(d1, d2) = (d1  d2) /||d1|| ||d2|| , where  indicates vector dot product, ||d|: the length of vector d  Ex: Find the similarity between documents 1 and 2. d1 = (5, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0) d2 = (3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1) d1d2 = 5*3+0*0+3*2+0*0+2*1+0*1+0*1+2*1+0*0+0*1 = 25 ||d1||= (5*5+0*0+3*3+0*0+2*2+0*0+0*0+2*2+0*0+0*0)0.5=(42)0.5 = 6.481 ||d2||= (3*3+0*0+2*2+0*0+1*1+1*1+0*0+1*1+0*0+1*1)0.5=(17)0.5 = 4.12 cos(d1, d2 ) = 0.94
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    63 KL Divergence:Comparing Two Probability Distributions  The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence: Measure the difference between two probability distributions over the same variable x  From information theory, closely related to relative entropy, information divergence, and information for discrimination  DKL(p(x) || q(x)): divergence of q(x) from p(x), measuring the information lost when q(x) is used to approximate p(x)  Discrete form:  The KL divergence measures the expected number of extra bits required to code samples from p(x) (“true” distribution) when using a code based on q(x), which represents a theory, model, description, or approximation of p(x)  Its continuous form:  The KL divergence: not a distance measure, not a metric: asymmetric, not satisfy triangular inequality
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    64 How toCompute the KL Divergence?  Base on the formula, DKL(P,Q) ≥ 0 and DKL(P || Q) = 0 if and only if P = Q.  How about when p = 0 or q = 0?  limp→0 p log p = 0  when p != 0 but q = 0, DKL(p || q) is defined as ∞, i.e., if one event e is possible (i.e., p(e) > 0), and the other predicts it is absolutely impossible (i.e., q(e) = 0), then the two distributions are absolutely different  However, in practice, P and Q are derived from frequency distributions, not counting the possibility of unseen events. Thus smoothing is needed  Example: P : (a : 3/5, b : 1/5, c : 1/5). Q : (a : 5/9, b : 3/9, d : 1/9)  need to introduce a small constant ϵ, e.g., ϵ = 10−3  The sample set observed in P, SP = {a, b, c}, SQ = {a, b, d}, SU = {a, b, c, d}  Smoothing, add missing symbols to each distribution, with probability ϵ  P′ : (a : 3/5 − ϵ/3, b : 1/5 − ϵ/3, c : 1/5 − ϵ/3, d : ϵ)  Q′ : (a : 5/9 − ϵ/3, b : 3/9 − ϵ/3, c : ϵ, d : 1/9 − ϵ/3).  DKL(P’ || Q’) can be computed easily
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    65 Chapter 2:Getting to Know Your Data  Data Objects and Attribute Types  Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data  Data Visualization  Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity  Summary
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    Summary  Dataattribute types: nominal, binary, ordinal, interval-scaled, ratio-scaled  Many types of data sets, e.g., numerical, text, graph, Web, image.  Gain insight into the data by:  Basic statistical data description: central tendency, dispersion, graphical displays  Data visualization: map data onto graphical primitives  Measure data similarity  Above steps are the beginning of data preprocessing  Many methods have been developed but still an active area of research
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