Data Mining

Below are the steps used in data mining. Please provide why each of the steps listed below are important in data mining:

1. Business understanding

2. Data understanding

3. Data preparation

4. Modeling

5. Evaluation

6. Deployment

You must make at least two substantive responses to your classmates’ posts. Respond to these posts in any of the following ways:

· Build on something your classmate said.

· Explain why and how you see things differently.

· Ask a probing or clarifying question.

· Share an insight from having read your classmates’ postings.

· Offer and support an opinion.

· Validate an idea with your own experience.

· Expand on your classmates’ postings.

· Ask for evidence that supports the post.

Discussion Length (word count): At least 200 words

References: At least one peer-reviewed, scholarly journal references.