Let's first gain a general view on the main components of a data mining architecture. It is basically composed of all of the basic elements you will need to perform the activities described in the previous chapter. As a minimum set of components, the following are usually considered:
- Data sources
- Data warehouse
- Data mining engine
- User interface
We can find reproduced here a useful logical map of a data mining architecture, where each of the mentioned components is depicted, highlighting through grey arrows the one and two verses connection within the components:
We are going to get into more details in the next paragraph; nevertheless, we can briefly have a look at all these components to get a clear sense of their reciprocal relationships:
- Data sources: These are all the possible sources of small bits of information to be analyzed. Data sources...
