Gujarat Technological UniversitySummer 2024 Examination

GTU 3160714 Data Mining Summer 2024 Paper Solution & PDF

B.E. · Computer Engineering · Semester 6 · Subject Code: 3160714
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Total Marks70 MarksExternal theory exam
Passing Marks23 Marks33% minimum cutoff
Exam Duration2.5 Hours10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Paper Structure5 QuestionsWith internal OR choices
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Question 1

14 MarksMedium
(a)

Define data mining. Describe three challenges to data mining regarding data mining methodology and user interaction issues.

3 Marks
(b)
Explain the steps in knowledge discovery.
4 Marks
(c)
Explain the various data mining issues.
7 Marks

Question 2

14 MarksMedium
(a)
What are the smoothing techniques available to remove noise?
3 Marks
(b)
Discuss normalization in detail.
4 Marks
(c)

In real-world data, tuples with missing values for some attributes are a common occurrence. Describe various methods for handling this problem.

7 Marks
OR OPTION
(c)
Discuss data discretization and concept hierarchy generation.
7 Marks

Question 3

14 MarksMedium
(a)
How are association rules mined from large databases?
3 Marks
(b)

Give the difference between Boolean association rule and quantitative association rule.

4 Marks
(c)

What are the limitations of the apriori approach for mining? Briefly describe the techniques to improve the efficiency of apriori algorithm.

7 Marks
OR OPTION
(a)
Describe two interesting measures for association rules.
3 Marks
(b)
How Meta rules are useful in constraint based association mining.
4 Marks
(c)
Write an algorithm for finding frequent item-sets using candidate generation.
7 Marks

Question 4

14 MarksMedium
(a)

What are the difference between supervised learning and unsupervised learning?

3 Marks
(b)
Write down short note on backpropagation.
4 Marks
(c)

What is information gain? Explain the steps required to generate a decision tree from a training data set.

7 Marks
OR OPTION
(a)
Differentiate between linear regression and nonlinear regression.
3 Marks
(b)
Explain various methods of evaluating accuracy of classifier.
4 Marks
(c)
Write a short on: web content mining.
7 Marks

Question 5

14 MarksMedium
(a)
Explain temporal mining.
3 Marks
(b)
Differentiate between partitioning and hierarchical methods for clustering.
4 Marks
(c)
Explain following clustering algorithm in details:
1)CLARA
2)BIRCH
7 Marks
OR OPTION
(a)
List out the applications of distributed and parallel data mining.
3 Marks
(b)

Illustrate strength and weakness of k-mean in comparison with k-medoid algorithm.

4 Marks
(c)
Explain the typical requirements of clustering in data mining.
7 Marks
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