Chapter 19 - Summary

Abstract

This chapter provides a summary of the rest of the chapters, and begins by explaining how the book began by exploring data mining in the context of an overall strategy. Part I highlighted general business (or cross-industry) problems, as well as problems specific to several industries to which data mining can be applied. The data mining process was examined in the context of another standard—CRISP-DM. Part II focused on the JDM standard itself, describing concepts from data mining generally, as well as JDM specifically. This was introduced through a series of examples organized by mining function. Part III brought data mining into practical focus, explaining how JDM benefits the application developer and how to use JDM to build applications. Through a series of full code examples, the use of the JDM API involving several data mining functions was illustrated. in the context of specific business problems. Part IV opened with the evolution of data mining standards and the means by which JDM came into being was discussed.