Research in Computing SWM53 Assignment 3 Wathsala Werapitiya

Literature Review Topic

Data Mining (DM): Real-world application of DM

Some comments about the topic

As you are probably aware, Data mining is a vast subject area. Therefore the
research material available is also quite varied (in terms of focus) and extensive.
I don’t think I’ll be able to achieve any much by writing a literature review on the
entire field of DM. Therefore I will be narrowing the subject area to a real-world
application of DM.

Annotated Bibliography

• ***Sarawagi, S., Liu B., Zaiane, O., Melli, G., Kitts, B. June 2006. [online].
Special Issue: Successful Real-World Data Mining Applications. Available
from: http://www.sigkdd.org/explorations/issue.php?
volume=8&issue=1&year=2006&month=06.

This is a collection of articles on real-world data mining applications. It

looks at a wide variety of real-world applications areas such as web
content mining, source-code mining and medical data mining.

• *** Srikant, R., Liu B., Zaiane, O., Keim, D., Schneidewind, J. December
2007. [online]. Special Issue: Visual Analytics. Available from:
http://www.sigkdd.org/explorations/issue.php?
volume=9&issue=2&year=2007&month=12.

This is a collection of articles on Visual Analytics compiled by the SIGKDD.

The articles examine the latest research in Visual Analytics such as
subspace clustering visualization and network visualization.

• * Varde, A., S., (2009). [online]. Challenging Research Issues in Data

Mining, Databases and Information Retrieval. Available from:
http://www.sigkdd.org/explorations/issues/11-1-2009-07/s7V11n1.pdf.

The paper looks at the challenging research issues in DM. It provides an

overview of some of the dissertation (Ph.D.) problems presented at an
ACM conference. This includes issues in areas such as text mining and
multilingual information analysis.

• ** Chapman, P., Clinton, J., Kerber, R. (2000). [online]. CRISP-DM 1.0: Step-
by-step data mining guide. Available from: http://www.crisp-
dm.org/CRISPWP-0800.pdf.

This is a step-by-step guide of the CRISP-DM process model. CRISP-DM is

Research in Computing SWM53 Assignment 3 Wathsala Werapitiya

an industry wide standard process model that describes common

approaches to DM and various methods in which to tackle DM problems.

• ** Mundy, J., Thornthwaite, W., Kimball, R. (2009). Microsoft Data

Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Business
Intelligence Toolset.

This is a tutorial-based book which covers the lifecycle of designing and

implementing a BI solution. I believe by following this tutorial I could gain
some practical knowledge on how a BI system is designed and
implemented.

• *** Berry, M., J., A., Linoff, S., G., (2004). Data Mining Techniques. 2nd
Edition.

This book covers the fundamentals of DM using the core techniques. It

also gives guidance in how to interpret various mined data. It also looks at
how DM can be used to solve common business problems.

• ** Schlegel, K., Hostmann, B., Bitterer, A., (2007). [online]. Magic Quadrant
for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07. Available from: http://aviation-
analytics.com/downloads/Gartner_BI_MQ_2007.pdf.

This is a market research on Business Intelligence (BI) compiled by

Gartner. Although it is a couple of years old, it offers good insight into the
market trends in BI. It divides the BI market into four quadrants; leaders,
challengers, niche players and visionaries. I believe the work that the
visionaries are doing will help me in this research.