On Data Mining in Context

Data mining can be seen as a process, with modeling as the core step. However, other steps such as planning, data preparation, evaluation and deployment are of key importance for applications. This thesis studies data mining in the context of these other steps with the goal of improving data mining applicability. We introduce cases that provide an end to end overview and serve as motivating examples, and then focus on specific research topics. We discuss the problem of data mining across multiple sources, with data fusion as a potential solution. This is an interesting research topic, as it…