Data Mining for Student Performance Prediction in Education

The healthcare environment is generally perceived as being 'information rich' yet 'knowledge poor'. There is a wealth of data available within the healthcare systems. However, there is a lack of effective analysis tools to discover hidden relationships and trends in data. Knowledge discovery and data mining have found numerous applications in business and scientific domain. Valuable knowledge can be discovered from application of data mining techniques in healthcare system. In this study, we briefly examine the potential use of classification based data mining techniques such as Rule based, Decision tree, Naive Bayes and Artificial Neural Network to massive volume of healthcare data. The healthcare industry collects huge amounts of healthcare data which, unfortunately, are not "mined" to discover hidden information. For data preprocessing and effective decision making One Dependency Augmented Naive Bayes classifier (ODANB) and naive credal classifier 2 (NCC2) are used. This is an extension of naive Bayes to imprecise probabilities that aims at delivering robust classifications also when dealing with small or incomplete data sets. Discovery of hidden patterns and relationships often goes unexploited. Using medical profiles such as age, sex, blood pressure and blood sugar it can predict the likelihood of patients getting a heart disease. It enables significant knowledge, e.g. patterns, relationships between medical factors related to heart disease, to be established.

The healthcare environment is generally perceived as being ‘information rich’ yet ‘knowledge poor’. There is a wealth of data available within the healthcare systems. However, there is a lack of effective analysis tools to discover hidden relationships and trends in data. Knowledge discovery and data mining have found numerous applications in business and scientific domain. Valuable knowledge can be discovered from application of data mining techniques in healthcare system. In this study, we briefly examine the potential use of classification based data mining techniques such as Rule based, decision tree and Artificial Neural Network to massive volume of healthcare data. In particular we consider a case study using classification techniques on a medical data set of diabetic patients.

Data mining is one of the most important steps of the knowledge discovery in databases process and is considered as significant subfield in knowledge management. Research in data mining continues growing in business and in learning organization over coming decades. This review paper explores the applications of data mining techniques which have been developed to support knowledge management process. The journal articles indexed in ScienceDirect Database from 2007 to 2012 are analyzed and classified. The discussion on the findings is divided into 4 topics: (i) knowledge resource; (ii) knowledge types and/or knowledge datasets; (iii) data mining tasks; and (iv) data mining techniques and applications used in knowledge management. The article first briefly describes the definition of data mining and data mining functionality. Then the knowledge management rationale and major knowledge management tools integrated in knowledge management cycle are described. Finally, the applications of data mining techniques in the process of knowledge management are summarized and discussed.

Data mining refers to the application of data analysis techniques with the aim of extracting hidden knowledge from data by performing the tasks of pattern recognition and predictive modeling. This article describes the application of data mining techniques on educational data of a higher education institution in Croatia. Data used for the analysis are event logs downloaded from an e-learning environment of a real e-course. Data mining techniques applied for the research are cluster analysis and decision tree. The cluster analysis was performed by organizing collections of patterns into groups based on student behavior similarity in using course materials. Decision tree was the method of interest for generating a representation of decision-making that allowed defining classes of objects for the purpose of deeper analysis about how students learned.

Introduction: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death in men, and the early detection of this disease can be a significant factor in controlling and managing it. Applying data mining techniques can lead to the extraction of hidden knowledge from a huge amount of data and can help diagnose this disease by physicians. This study aims to determine the algorithm with the best performance to diagnose prostate cancer.Methods: In this study, nine data mining techniques, including Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors, Neural Network, Random Forest, Deep Learning, Auto-MLP, and Rule Induction algorithms, were used to extract hidden patterns from prostate cancer data. In this study, the data of 100 patients, which included eight characteristics, were used, and the RapidMiner Studio environment was employed for modeling. To compare the performance of the mentioned approaches used in this study to diagnose prostate cancer, accuracy, recall, precision, AUC, sensitivity, and specificity were calculated and reported for all techniques.Results: The results of this study showed that the accuracy of the applied algorithms was between 77% and 84%. Using different criteria to evaluate the techniques used showed that the two algorithms K-Nearest Neighbors and Neural Network, had better performance and accuracy (84%) than other methods. The sensitivity in these two algorithms was 80% for Neural Networks and 85% for K-Nearest Neighbors, respectively.Conclusion: The usage of different data mining techniques can lead to the discovery of hidden patterns among an enormous amount of data related to prostate cancer, and as a result, it leads to the early diagnosis of this disease and saves the subsequent costs.

The decision making process in any field related to human behavior is an integral part of complex environment. Education has become a major concern of the development process in every field. The competent decision making to plan, execute and evaluate policies in this field became a necessity of this field which may be achieved by applying data mining techniques to educational environment. EDM uses many techniques such as decision trees, neural networks, k-nearest neighbor, naive bays, support vector machines and many others. The principal purpose of the study is identifying how each of these traditional processes can be improved through data mining techniques. And also to analyze the student behavior for future benefit by applying Data mining technique and using this valuable information for Decision Support to Prognostication of Academic Intervention for Higher Education using Data Mining Techniques. The study has suggested models and algorithms for every educational sphere we found while analyzing Education database. Data modeling processes is our main outcome, and enhanced processes achieved through data mining have been presented as research outcome. The techniques appropriate in achieving this enhanced processes has also been presented as modeling processes for finding the behavioral aspects and to effectively implement the organizational policies.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40200-021-00884-2.

The apparel industry houses a huge amount and variety of data. At every step of the supply chain, data is collected and stored by each supply chain actor. This data, when used intelligently, can help with solving a good deal of problems for the industry. In this regard, this article is devoted to the application of data mining on the industry’s product data, i.e., data related to a garment, such as fabric, trim, print, shape, and form. The purpose of this article is to use data mining and symmetry-based learning techniques on product data to create a classification model that consists of two subsystems: (1) for predicting the garment category and (2) for predicting the garment sub-category. Classification techniques, such as Decision Trees, Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, and Bayesian Forest were applied to the ‘Deep Fashion’ open-source database. The data contain three garment categories, 50 garment sub-categories, and 1000 garment attributes. The two subsystems were first trained individually and then integrated using soft classification. It was observed that the performance of the random forest classifier was comparatively better, with an accuracy of 86%, 73%, 82%, and 90%, respectively, for the garment category, and sub-categories of upper body garment, lower body garment, and whole-body garment.

A review on application of data mining techniques to combat natural disasters

Forest fire is one of the most complex phenomena which can cause great economic losses and make eco-environment seriously disordered. Forest fire has caused the loss of many green acres in Lebanon due to the lack of governmental policies in order to mange forest fires. This paper presents an overview of the exciting applications of data mining techniques in different fields. This study aims to predict forest fires in North Lebanon in order to reduce fire occurrence based on 4 meteorological parameters (Temperature, Humidity, Precipitation and Wind speed) using different data mining techniques: Neural networks, decision tree (J48), fuzzy logic, support vector machine (SVM) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA). A comparative study is then made to find the best performing technique tending to manage such a natural crisis. Decision tree (J48) recorded the best accuracy in forest fire prediction (97.8%).

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a condition associated with metabolic abnormalities that are characterized by central obesity (e.g. waist circumference or body mass index), hypertension (e.g. systolic or diastolic blood pressure), hyperglycemia (e.g. fasting plasma glucose) and dyslipidemia (e.g. triglyceride and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol). It is also associated with the development of diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Therefore, the rapid identification of MS is required to prevent the occurrence of such diseases. Herein, we review the utilization of data mining approaches for MS identification. Furthermore, the concept of quantitative population-health relationship (QPHR) is also presented, which can be defined as the elucidation/understanding of the relationship that exists between health parameters and health status. The QPHR modeling uses data mining techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), principal component analysis (PCA), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF) and association analysis (AA) for modeling and construction of predictive models for MS characterization. The DT method has been found to outperform other data mining techniques in the identification of MS status. Moreover, the AA technique has proved useful in the discovery of in-depth as well as frequently occurring health parameters that can be used for revealing the rules of MS development. This review presents the potential benefits on the applications of data mining as a rapid identification tool for classifying MS.

Literature Review of Data Mining Applications in Academic Libraries

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has attracted much attention due to the high competition in the retail trade. Meanwhile, data mining has great potential to improve the effectiveness of CRM, since the data volume of customers is drastically increasing. In this paper, we firstly propose a logic structure of the retail CRM system, and thus discuss several data mining techniques, i.e., classification, clustering, association analysis, for CRM. Last but not the least, several sub-fields of CRM that are suitable to the application of data mining techniques are discussed. As can be seen from this paper, the retailers must strengthen the application of data mining technology research in order to support the management decision-making and improve the level of information management.KeywordsRetailCustomer relationship managementData mining

Background: For hepatocellular carcinoma (“HCC”), the current standard of treatment is hepatic artery embolization, generally through trans-catheter arterial chemoembolization (“TACE”). There are two types: traditional (“conventional” or “cTACE”) and microsphere (“DC bead TACE”). Unfortunately, the literature comparing the relative effectiveness of cTACE versus DC bead TACE is inconclusive, partially due to the complexity of HCC and its response to treatment. Data mining is an excellent method to extract meaning from complex data sets. Purpose: Through the application of data mining techniques, to compare the relative effectiveness of cTACE and DC bead TACE using a large patient database and to use said comparison to establish usable guidelines for developing treatment plans for HCC patients. Materials and Methods: The data of 372 HCC patients who underwent TACE in Taichung Veterans General Hospital were analyzed. The chi-square test was used to compare the difference in the effectiveness of the two therapies was compared. Logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratios. Furthermore, using the C4.5 decision tree, the two therapies were classified into applicable fields. Chi-square test, the t-test, and logistic regression were used to verify the classification results. Results: In Barcelona Clinic Stages A and B cancers, cTACE was found to be 22.7% more effective than DC bead TACE. By using the decision tree C4.5 as a classifier, the effectiveness of either treatment for small tumors was 8.475 times than that for large tumors. DC bead TACE was 3.39 times more successful in treating patients with a single tumor than with multiple tumors. For patients with a single tumor, the chi-square test showed that 100–300 μm microspheres were significantly more effective than 300–500 μm. While these findings provide a reference for the selection of an appropriate TACE approach, we noted that overall accuracy was somewhat low, possibly due to the limited population. Conclusions: We found that data mining could be applied to develop clear guidelines for physician and researcher use in the case of complex pathologies such as HCC. However, some of our results contradicted those elsewhere in the literature, possibly due to a relatively small sample size. Significantly larger data sets with appropriate levels of granularity could produce more accurate results.

Diabetes is the common chronic disease and a major health challenge in all population. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a type of diabetes developed in women at the time of pregnancy. We present a Data mining (DM) approach to identify the risk factors of Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) using different data mining techniques. Dataset used for analysis contains the details of the pregnant women admitted the local hospital of Mysuru, India. The data mining techniques used are k-means clustering, J48 Decision Tree, Random-Forest and Naive-Bayes classifier. Classification accuracy is enhanced by using feature subset selection wrapper approach. Data imbalanced problem is handled by using Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE). The performances of the algorithms have been measured and compared in terms of Accuracy.