Interestingness Measures - On Determining What Is Interesting

Abstract

SummaryAs the size of databases increases, the sheer number of mined from them can easily overwhelm users of the KDD process. Users run the KDD process because they are overloaded by data. To be successful, the KDD process needs to extract interesting patterns from large masses of data. In this chapter we examine methods of tackling this challenge: how to identify interesting patterns.