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Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Data

Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Data

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Spatial Science

Business GeneralGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 364202663X
ISBN13: 9783642026638
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 3 2009
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When I ?rst came across the term data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, I was excited and curious to ?nd out what it was all about. I was excited because the term tends to convey a new ?eld that is in the making. I was curious because I wondered what it was doing that the other ?elds of research, such as statistics and the broad ?eld of arti?cial intelligence, were not doing. After reading up on the literature, I have come to realize that it is not much different from conventional data analysis. The commonly used de?nition of knowledge discovery in databases: the non-trivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately understandable patterns in data is actually in line with the core mission of conventional data analysis. The process employed by conventional data analysis is by no means trivial, and the patterns in data to be unraveled have, of course, to be valid, novel, useful and understandable. Therefore, what is the commotion all about? Careful scrutiny of the main lines of research in data mining and knowledge discovery again told me that they are not much different from that of conventional data analysis. Putting aside data warehousing and database m- agement aspects, again a main area of research in conventional database research, the rest of the tasks in data mining are largely the main concerns of conventional data analysis.

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