I understand Mr. MacLennan's explanation provided at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=282651&SiteID=1 and appreciate the time he took to explain how importance works. However, like the user with username "sang", I also ran the data in BI 2005 and got the same results listed by the aforementioned user. I did this using the following data:
donut
muffin
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
n
y
n
y
n
y
n
y
n
y
etc.
The rule muffin -> donut has an importance of -0.105302438, which is not the same as Mr. MacLennan's results. I tried switching the roles of a and b in a -> b and using different bases on the logarithms. I don't get the result of -0.105302438 with any of these. I also tried to calculate importance with a small data set I have and can't get the results using Mr. MacLennan's explanation with that data set either. Any thoughts on the descrepancy?
hi, i have a exercise using association datamining my database have 350 records, i use 90 records for datamining and it release some rules which i choose on top of mSOLAP_NODE_SCORE, but when i use select statement to check my result i have 1 records, the same as my result, and 5 records not true; for example: rules A=a,B=b-> C=c select * from <my_table> where A='a' and B='b' and C='c'; ==>1 record return select * from <my_table> where A='a' and B='b' and C<>'c'; ==>5 records return C with 3 values c1,c2,c with the second statement C includes 2 c1 and 3 c2
i don't understand how they work. i want to choose some best rules can present my database. how can i choose importance and probability to get best rules. with database have 90 records and a database have 350 records which values i should use for minimum_probability, Minimum_Support, Minimum_importance... when i choose rules i should choose on importance or probability.
Can anyone tell me, how the Business Ã?ntelligence Studio calculates the importance of a rule. I can't find the formula. I know some formulas, but the result in SQL Server is completly different.
When i use the MS association rules ,i don't know how it is worked on the background .I stuy the Fp-Growth algorithm , but there're some questions , I don't kown what's the meaning of transcation database. who can give me one example ? thanks .I know we can store the data in relation database,but in basket Analysis ,how a transaction stroed in relation database?
Hi there, it has been a long i'm trying to execute Microsoft Association Rules on my database.
I solved memory leak problem now, but i still can't understand output rules.
Database contain all the italian student who took a degree last year. Here in Italy, they have to compile a summary where they speak about universitary experience. ie: they talk about experience with teachers (pointage from 1 to 5); they says if they want to continue in the universitary field or not, and so on.
Most of the rules, says: Int_Stud=1-2, RapDoc>4
Int_Stud is the column where i store student intention to continue university. 1 means they want to go on, 2 means they do not want to continue to study. So, this rules has no sense, because it relates all the student (in my mind): the one who wants to continue university and the one who do not want to.
I think problem is that visual studio 2005 and analysis service has no understanding of Int_Stud world, they've no idea that Int_Stud can have just 2 values and that they're opposite each other. Is there a solution to this problem? Can i discretize this column?
Even if I know not to have perfect english, I hope to be understandable
I note that there exist three web viewers for data mining algorithms, namely, DMNaiveBayesViewer, DMDecisionTreeViewer and DMClusterViewer. How come there are no viewers for association rules (itemsets, rules, dependency network)? Can you suggest any alternative way of showing such valuable information in a web application?
I am doing the Market basket analysis for a retailer using association rule. The whole data set is huge which contains grocery, clothes and books etc. If I want to check out the relationship between several different clothes brands, (e.g. LEVI'S and adidas), should I just remove all the grocery and books transactions, use the subset which only contains clothes transactions to re-run the association rules? Is this gonna work?
I got a question about the data preparation of market basket analysis.
There are always some transactions with only one single SKU product. It seems that these kind of transactions have nothing to do with association. Shall I just exclude them or what?
I want to score my data by only the assoziation rules I filtered in Mining-Model-Viewer.
Is this possible?
I recognized that MiningModel Predictionquery uses the generated Model (all rules).
Is there any way to influence the model at generating time.
Thanks a lot.
Hi,
I specified the point to solve my problem but I did not understand why MS SQL Server didn't recognize the Association parameters I but in. It uses the Minimum_Probability I put in, but the Minimum_Importance i wrote didn't care it, it use the default value.
I want to paste a screenshot here but it isn't possible. By the way I'm using the evaluation version, which should be same as the enterprise edition.
I need to create a set of cases for a project that uses the Microsoft Association Rules algorithm to make recommendations for products to customers. My question is: the set of scenarios must include all transactions of customers for training?. or is it sufficient some percentage of total transactions? If i do not use all transactions of customers, could be that the algorithm does not consider some products in their groups or rules and could not make recommendations about these?
The problem is that I can't seem to reduce the minimum probability below .42 to view more rules.
I've considered that it might be becuase these are the only rules discovered, however I know quite a bit about the data and I would excpect many more associations.
I'm new to analysis services and hopefully this is a quick & easy question. I have a couple of quite large (163,000 tuple) tables with columns essentially representing a bit vector. I would like to mine for association rules but the number of '1' values are very, very sparse and they are the only objects of interest. How can I get more control over the algorithm---that is, how can I stipulate that the state of the column must be '1' to be considered? Any help or direction to the proper documentation would be great.
I'm building a mining model wiht MS Association Rules. After processing this model, the result includes some rules(example):
E = Existing, C = Existing -> B = Existing F = Existing -> E = Existing C = Existing, B = Existing -> E = Existing F = Existing -> B = Existing B = Existing, A = Existing -> C = Existing F = Existing, B = Existing -> E = Existing F = Existing, E = Existing -> B = Existing D = Existing -> A = Existing C = Existing -> A = Existing E = Existing, A = Existing -> B = Existing
I want to buid a query that has two or more items on the left of the rules, example: E = Existing, C = Existing -> B = Existing ->I want to buid a query to predict that: when a customer buy 'E' and 'C' then he likely buys 'B'
I read the paper of sequence clustering. It seems that the major application of the algorithm is for the web site. I was just thinking that can I apply this algorithm on the purchase sequences of credit card data?
If so,please also tell me the difference between sequence clustering and association rules on credit card data application. Although I realize that sequence clustering is a fully probabilistic model and it has the capability of prediction, association rules also give the probabilities of purchasing the other products.
I would really appreciate if you could help me out. I am trying to create a taxonomy to be taken into account into the association rules algorithm. For example, if my data is a group of purchases from a supermarket I could have one client who bought milk, cookies and shampoo, and another who bough cheese, cookies and soap.
I would like to specify that milk and cheese belong to the category "dairy" and shampoo and soap belong to "personal hygene". If there are interesting rules regarding the categories I would like them to be taken into account. Additionally, I would not like to have rules like "milk -> dairy". If one specific object appers in a rule, its corresponding category should not. In this scenario I could have milk and "personal hygene" in the same rule, but not shampoo and "personal hygene".
I have seen this done by other mining tools but I've been having trouble finding a way to make this possible in Analysis Services.
What would be the right design approach for the following problem?
I have a single table called SelectionFactors, which has the following columns and sample data:
ProjectID Factor FactorValue
1000 Countries USA
1000 Countries Canada
1000 Countries France
1000 Languages English
1000 Languages French
1000 Company Type Consulting
1000 Company Type Software
2000 Countries India
2000 Countries China
2000 Countries USA
2000 Languages English
2000 Languages Chinese (Simplified)
2000 Languages Chinese (Traditional)
2000 Languages Spanish
2000 Company Type Retail
2000 Company Type Dairy Products
The problem is to allow a descriptive analysis of the data to find patterns in the users selections. For instance, if Languages->English is selected, what are the counts of projects for other Factor->Factor Value combinations? Countries->USA = 2, Countries->Canada=1, Company Type->Consulting=1 and so on.
Since all the data is in this single table, are both the case and nested tables the same? What are the keys and inputs? I only need a descriptive analysis (no prediction) and ALL possible combinations MUST be part of the results; how should the model be designed?
MS uses the a priori algorithm in Association Rules, while other DM software have gone to the Novel Algorithm. Can you tell us why MS decided to stay with the a priori? Did you overcome the limitations that it's accused of having? Thanks!
I build a data mining model to predict what are the best studying methods for the student to pass the examinaton.
Create Mining Model StudentAssociation ( Student_No long key, Gender text discrete predict, PassOrFail text discrete predict, StudyMethod table predict ( MethodName text key ) ) Using Microsoft_Association_Rules ( Minimum_Support=0.02, Minimum_Probability=0.03 )
The mining table will contain all the methods that the students use, no matter their examination is passed or failed. The value of PassOrFail will have either 'Pass' or 'Fail'.
According to the above model, can I query the best studying methods? Or I should only train the model with the student who pass the examination, and ignore all the failed.
If I use this code with an association model, it still returns itemsets for me - when it should be returning only nodes with rules associated with them (according to sqlserverdatamining.com). If I try adding 'AND $PROBABILITY > .25' to the where clause, it returns 0 results for every query I try. Any clue why this may be happening?
Code Snippet
SELECT FLATTENED (SELECT * FROM PredictAssociation([Product],20, INCLUDE_NODE_ID,INCLUDE_STATISTICS) WHERE $NODEID<>'') FROM [ProductRecommend] PREDICTION JOIN OPENQUERY([ds], 'SELECT [PRODUCTCLASSID],[DESCRIPTION] FROM [Product_Table] WHERE [PRODUCTCLASSID] = ''1234'' AND [DESCRIPTION] = ''DESC'' ') AS t
ON [ProductRecommend].[Product].[PRODUCTCLASSID] = t.[PRODUCTCLASSID] AND [ProductRecommend].[Product].[DESCRIPTION] = t.[DESCRIPTION]
This query returns more relevant results than those lacking the filtering by $NODEID, however the results should have higher probabilities than .047! Please help! Thanks!
"If you have a pressing need for this fix, please contact our customer support team."
Yes I have a pressing need for this fix, where I have to contact your customer support team. How do I do that?
You know I only have the evaluation version of SQL Server, but I have to show that this programm is good enough to solve Association Analysis. If I can not show this it wouldn't be bought. Please help me.
I am using Microsoft association algorithm to find the association between PATIENT CITY ---> likely Disease. I like to know how can i import association model after creating from SQL Server BI studio to use in my ASP.NET web form? such a way when the user enters PATIENT CITY, system prompts associated Disease.
I do have Data mining with SQL Server 2005 book, could't find any resource for my objective.
Please suggest best source or tutorial how can i do
In assotiation rules each rule has a [support, confidence] part. In Microsoft Association Rules there is a [probability,importance] measure in each rule and importance can be greater that 1.
I found the following in msdn but i'm not sure if i understood correctly.
MINIMUM_PROBABILITY: Specifies the minimum probability that a rule is true. For example, setting this value to 0.5 specifies that no rule with less than fifty percent probability is generated. The default is 0.4.
MAXIMUM_SUPPORT: Specifies the maximum number of cases in which an itemset can have support. If this value is less than 1, the value represents a percentage of the total cases. Values greater than 1 represent the absolute number of cases that can contain the itemset. The default is 1.
My questions are 1) Can i explain the [probability,importance] in [support,confidence]? If yes, how? 2) What importance>1 means?
I want to filter the itemsets or rules based on more than 2 attributes, how can we achieve that? (I can only filter them by only one attribute?). Is it possible to achieve that?
Thanks a lot and I am looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
i'm new to this forum .. Maybe my way of expression is not very good, but I hope to be understandable.
I've a sql server 2005 database with 90 columns and more or less 185 thousands records. I've to run microsoft associations rules on my laptop (sony vaio sz3, core 2 duo, 2gb ram).
The problems is that the amount of ram seems not to be enough [it starts to swap when it's reading 240th case)
Because of this, i decided to sample my data by extracting 10thousands records randomnly ... it lasts 25minutes (more or less) now, but it's still to much...
Does a better way exists? What's the problem: column or row numbers?
Hi, I am using Sql 7.0 with sp2. I just started as a sql dba. I have a question here, What is the importance of SID's ? When we are mapping to sql logins and user_id 's how we have to give importance regarding SID's. Pls suggest me a good article or some suggestions...
Hi all-- there is a file in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLBinn direcetory called sqlctr.h which contains a lot of counter parametres..could any one tell me having its importance and can we change any of parametres to gain performance.. Thanks in advance..
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I am thinking of an easy way to explain importance to Marketers without going into the math. This is what i came up with so far. Does this sound correct to you guys?
Reasoning:
IMPORTANCE = Log(Improvement)
Improvement=P(X&Y)/(P(x)*P(y))
Improvement= (Probability 2 products are sold together)/(random chance 2 products are sold together)
If the (Probability 2 products are sold together) = (random chance 2 products are sold together) then Improvement=1. The log(1) = 0
IMPORTANCE SCORE -2 to -1 10 to 100 times less likely than random chance -1 to 0 0 to 10 times less likely than random chance 0 to 1 0 to 10 times more likely than random chance 1 to 2 10 to 100 times more likely than random chance 2 to 3 100 to 1000 times more likely than random chance 3 to 4 1000 to 10000 times more likely than random chance 4 to 5 10000 to 100000 times more likely than random chance 5 to 6 100000 to 1000000 times more likely than random chance 6 to 7 1000000 to 10000000 times more likely than random chance
Is there a way to explicitly assign 'weights' or 'importance' factors to attributes and have that to be considered by the association rules and decision trees algorithms during training? I would like to do so without preprocessing the data (In any case, I can't think on a way to assign weight with preprocessing to boolean attributes like 'smoker')
Those of you who have installed SQL Server 2005 may have noticed that the installation creates several new Windows groups on the server. Do not underestimate the importance of these groups.
