Towards a methodology for data mining project development: The importance of abstraction

Abstract

Standards such as CRISP-DM, SEMMA, PMML, are making data mining processes easier. Nevertheless, up to date, projects are being developed more as an art than as a science making it difficult to understand, evaluate and compare results as there is no standard methodology. In this chapter, we make a proposal for such a methodology based on RUP and CRISP-DM and concentrate on the project conception phase for determining a feasible project plan. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.