Introduction
- Discuss whether or not each of the following activities is adata mining
task.
(a) Dividing the customers of a company according to their gender.
No. This is a simple database query.
(b) Dividing the customers of a company according to their prof-
itability.
No. This is an accounting calculation, followed by the applica-
tion of a threshold. However, predicting the pro?tability of a new
customer would be data mining.
(c)Computing the total sales of a company.
No. Again, this is simple accounting.
(d) Sorting a student database based on student identi?cation num-
bers.
No. Again, this is a simple database query.
(e) Predicting the outcomes of tossing a (fair) pair of dice.
No. Since the die is fair, this is a probability calculation. If the
die were not fair, and we needed to estimate the probabilities of<