As we know, data mining is a process of extracting knowledge and patterns from data. But, before we apply any analysis or data mining algorithm, we should be more familiar with our data. For this ...

Abstract: Ordinal data are common in many data mining and machine learning tasks. Compared to nominal data, the possible values (also called categories interchangeably) of an ordinal attribute are ...

Ordinal data are common in rating scales for surveys, as well as attributes like Age or number of years for X. Ordinal data currently gets classified as categorical, especially if the column contains ...