R: Data Analysis and Visualization

Data source

Data serves as the input for the data mining system and data repositories are important. In an enterprise environment, database and logfiles are common sources. In web data mining, web pages are the source of data. The data that continuously fetched various sensors are also a typical data source.

Note

Here are some free online data sources particularly helpful to learn about data mining:

• Frequent Itemset Mining Dataset Repository: A repository with datasets for methods to find frequent itemsets (http://fimi.ua.ac.be/data/).
• UCI Machine Learning Repository: This is a collection of dataset, suitable for classification tasks (http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/).
• The Data and Story Library at statlib: DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library ...