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Mastering Data Mining with Python ??? Find patterns hidden in your data
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Mastering Data Mining with Python ??? Find patterns hidden in your data

Chapter 2. Association Rule Mining

In our data mining toolbox, measuring the frequency of a pattern is a critical task. In some cases, more frequently occurring patterns may end up being more important patterns. If we can find frequently occurring pairs of items, or triples of items, those may be even more interesting.

In this chapter, we begin our exploration of frequent itemsets, and then we extend those to a type of pattern called association rules. We will cover the following topics:

  • What is a frequent itemset? What are the techniques for finding frequent itemsets? Where are the bottlenecks and how can we speed up the process?
  • How can we extend a frequent itemset to become an association rule?
  • What makes a good association rule? We will learn to describe the value of a particular association rule, given its level of support in the database, our confidence in the rule itself, and the value added by the rule we found.

To do this, we will write a program to find frequent itemsets...

What are frequent itemsets?

Finding frequent itemsets is a type of counting activity. But unlike producing a simple tally of items we observe in a dataset (today we sold 80 carrots and 100 tomatoes), finding frequent itemsets is slightly different. Specifically, to find frequent itemsets we look for co-occurring sets of items within some larger group. These larger groups are sometimes imagined as supermarket transactions or shopping baskets, and the entire exercise is sometimes called market basket analysis. Staying with the supermarket analogy, the items co-occurring within those baskets are sometimes imagined to be combinations of products purchased at the supermarket. For example, given a set of supermarket transactions or baskets, we might be interested in whether the itemset of {carrots, tomatoes} occurs more frequently in baskets than does the {cucumbers, lemons} itemset.

The purpose of frequent itemset mining is to make interesting discoveries of co-occurring items within a set of...

Towards association rules

All of this frequent itemset stuff is fine, but we are ultimately on the hunt for association rules, which are much more exciting. Association rules are formed from frequent itemsets, with a few small twists. We are interested in making a statement about the frequent itemsets like this: people who buy vanilla wafers also buy bananas 60% of the time. In order to do so, we need to learn how to calculate a few additional metrics, starting with two we call support and confidence.

Support

If we are looking for frequent itemsets, then we also need a way to express how often we see these sets occurring in baskets, and whether that number qualifies as frequent. If I see {vanilla wafers, bananas} in 90% of baskets, is that considered frequent? What about 50% of baskets? What about 5%? We call this number the support of the itemset. The support is just the number of times we saw that itemset over all the baskets.

To make support more meaningful, and to begin talking about ...

A project – discovering association rules in software project tags

In 1997, the website, Freshmeat, was created as a directory that tracked free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects. In 2011, the site was renamed Freecode. After sales and acquisitions and several site redesigns, in 2014 all updates to the Freecode site were discontinued. The site remains online, but it is no longer being updated and no new projects are being added to the directory. Freecode now serves as a snapshot of facts about FLOSS projects during the late 1990s and 2000s. These facts about each software project include its name, its description, the URL to download the software, tags that describe its features, a numeric representation of its popularity, and so on.

As part of my FLOSSmole project, I have catalogued data from Freshmeat/Freecode since 2005. Freshmeat/Freecode provided periodic RDF downloads describing each project on the site. I downloaded these, parsed out the project data, organized...

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to generate frequent itemsets from a dataset using the Apriori algorithm. We then proposed association rules from these itemsets by describing their support and confidence. We used one additional check, an added value measure, to ensure that the proposed rules were interesting. We implemented all these concepts using a freely available dataset of Freecode open source projects and their tags. We calculated support for single tags, then generated doubletons and tripletons that met a minimum support threshold. For rules with one item on the right-hand side, we calculated confidence and added value for each. Finally, we looked closely at the rules that were generated and tried to figure out which ones were interesting, using the metrics we had calculated.

In the next chapter, we will continue our quest to make connections between items in a data set. However, unlike in this chapter where we were trying to find groups of two or three items that are already...

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Data mining is an integral part of the data science pipeline. It is the foundation of any successful data-driven strategy – without it, you'll never be able to uncover truly transformative insights. Since data is vital to just about every modern organization, it is worth taking the next step to unlock even greater value and more meaningful understanding. If you already know the fundamentals of data mining with Python, you are now ready to experiment with more interesting, advanced data analytics techniques using Python's easy-to-use interface and extensive range of libraries. In this book, you'll go deeper into many often overlooked areas of data mining, including association rule mining, entity matching, network mining, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, text summarization, topic modeling, and anomaly detection. For each data mining technique, we'll review the state-of-the-art and current best practices before comparing a wide variety of strategies for solving each problem. We will then implement example solutions using real-world data from the domain of software engineering, and we will spend time learning how to understand and interpret the results we get. By the end of this book, you will have solid experience implementing some of the most interesting and relevant data mining techniques available today, and you will have achieved a greater fluency in the important field of Python data analytics.

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This book is for data scientists who are already familiar with some basic data mining techniques such as SQL and machine learning, and who are comfortable with Python. If you are ready to learn some more advanced techniques in data mining in order to become a data mining expert, this is the book for you!

What you will learn

  • *Explore techniques for finding frequent itemsets and association rules in large data sets
  • *Learn identification methods for entity matches across many different types of data
  • *Identify the basics of network mining and how to apply it to real-world data sets
  • *Discover methods for detecting the sentiment of text and for locating named entities in text
  • *Observe multiple techniques for automatically extracting summaries and generating topic models for text
  • *See how to use data mining to fix data anomalies and how to use machine learning to identify outliers in a data set

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
1. Expanding Your Data Mining Toolbox Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Association Rule Mining Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Entity Matching Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Network Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Sentiment Analysis in Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Named Entity Recognition in Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Automatic Text Summarization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Topic Modeling in Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Mining for Data Anomalies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The title justifies the contents inside this book. Author has done really a commendable job. She has explained the concepts that a reader would need to explore data mining technology.I am one of the reviewer of this book and this way I got chance to read this book before it got published.User should be from Data mining domain and very fluent in Python to understand what she wants to explain. She has taken much time to write this book to explain the complex data structure and other concepts in easy manner.I would personally recommend this book for those who wants to get their hands dirty in data Mining with Python.
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The author's first ouvre, "Clean Data", was a dishonestly marketed atrocity, so when I recently came across a PDF of Prof. Squire's second book, and then saw it supported by a five-star review of the kind that many Packt books get *initially*, I decided to get involved. Not surprisingly, my opinion is not as complimentary. "Mastering Data Mining" is much better than "Clean Data", but three nasty things about "Clean Data" carry over in full. One is deceptive marketing: here, a book that's 80% about text analysis is presented as a "comprehensive guide to advance [sic] data analytics techniques". Another is the book being a recycling/repackaging of the author's past projects, as opposed to having material written for the book. Going back to the first point, if you were writing a book about data mining, you sure would go beyond text analysis, but if you are repackaging what you have, and what you have is text analysis, then that has to do. Finally, there's the bizarre coding. In "Clean Data", this was about a mess of typically un-commented code in different languages - some, like PHP, looking decidedly outmoded. (What kind of a teacher would be teaching her students PHP in 2016?) Here, it's all Python - but, first, it's a bad-beginner Python, and second and most spectacularly, Python used simply for automation. Prof. Squire insists on storing *and manipulating* data in a database - so instead of loading a dataset into Python and manipulating it using Python's vast arsenal, you witness the moronic sight of Python being used to fire SQL queries. Is teaching*this* really helping the beginners? I think not - and point readers to real data-science-with-Python books, by Raschka, Layton, and Coelho and Richert.
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Rookie attempt at authoring a resource book. Should have just written a paper and called it a day.
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