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johnbc

johnbc

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Mar 27, 2001
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Hi,

I work on a data base that contains telecommunication datas. I would like to find patterns in this DB and before, I need to make the pb discrete (ie to build classes corresponding to certain ranges of numeric datas so that I will work on classes and not on continuous numeric datas).
In other words, I would like to gather the numeric datas into suitable groups of data to work on (of course, this is DM, so I have no idea of what these groups could be).
What do you think is the best classification algorithm for this kind of pb ? kNN ?
Thanks a lot for your answer...

john b
 
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You don't say exactly what kinds of "patterns" you're looking for, so what you want to do could fall under any of a number of different data mining activities (classification, association analysis, clustering, etc.). Could you elaborate?

Your other question seems to be about binning (or "discretization"), which is a well-studied subject, but I think it would be more productive to understand your problem first, then worry about technical details.

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