DM: Re: DM Visualization

[Barry Becker]

Sandra,

  Here's an attempt to answer your questions.

1) I believe data mining is but one step in the
   knowledge discovery process.
2,3) In my biased opinion SGI's MineSet is the best product
   for doing data mining on, and visualization of 
   large databases. 
   see http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet/
   It is available at low cost to Universities through
   the SGI varsty program.
     There are a few other products that do visualization
   of relational data, but most have difficulty with 
   very large databases.
4) Probably the best place to look to 
  find material on visualization are the 
  IEEE Visualization proceedings, and 
  IEEE Information Visualization proceedings.
  Other useful sources are Tufte's 3 books on 
  the Visual Presentation of Information,
  and Cleveland's "Visualizing Data".



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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 14:27:29 +0200
From: Sandra Poprawski <uorb@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I am a student of the University of Karlsruhe and I am interested in
getting some information about data mining or KDD in general.
These are my questions:
(1) What is the difference between data mining an KDD (knowledge
discovery of databases)?
(2) Are there any companies which take part in this list of discussion
and use special tools for visualization of large databases ? What kind
of tools are there or what else do you prefer for presentation ?
(3) Are there any other systems than VisDB existing (that's the one 
I'm
working on)?
(4) Does anyone know good literature about visualization in general?

I would be very glad if my questions will be answered soon!
Thanks!

Sandra Poprawski

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