Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning

The interdisciplinary field of knowledge discovery and data mining emerged from a necessity of big data requiring new analytical methods beyond the traditional statistical approaches to discover new knowledge from the data mine. This emergent approach is a dialectic research process that is both ded...

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Published in:Social science research Vol. 110; p. 102817
Main Authors: Shu, Xiaoling, Ye, Yiwan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.02.2023
Subjects:
big data
causal discovery
data mining
Data Mining - methods
Humans
Knowledge Discovery
Machine Learning
predition
Knowledge discovery
predition
causal discovery
machine learning
big data
data mining
ISSN:0049-089X, 1096-0317, 1096-0317
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Summary:The interdisciplinary field of knowledge discovery and data mining emerged from a necessity of big data requiring new analytical methods beyond the traditional statistical approaches to discover new knowledge from the data mine. This emergent approach is a dialectic research process that is both deductive and inductive. The data mining approach automatically or semi-automatically considers a larger number of joint, interactive, and independent predictors to address causal heterogeneity and improve prediction. Instead of challenging the conventional model-building approach, it plays an important complementary role in improving model goodness of fit, revealing valid and significant hidden patterns in data, identifying nonlinear and non-additive effects, providing insights into data developments, methods, and theory, and enriching scientific discovery. Machine learning builds models and algorithms by learning and improving from data when the explicit model structure is unclear and algorithms with good performance are difficult to attain. The most recent development is to incorporate this new paradigm of predictive modeling with the classical approach of parameter estimation regressions to produce improved models that combine explanation and prediction.
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ISSN:0049-089X
1096-0317
1096-0317
DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102817