Issue No.03 - March (2006 vol.18)
Hui Xiong , IEEE
Gaurav Pandey , IEEE
Michael Steinbach , IEEE Computer Society
Vipin Kumar , IEEE
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2006.46
Removing objects that are noise is an important goal of data cleaning as noise hinders most types of data analysis. Most existing data cleaning methods focus on removing noise that is the product of low-level data errors that result from an imperfect data collection process, but data objects that are irrelevant or only weakly relevant can also significantly hinder data analysis. Thus, if the goal is to enhance the data analysis as much as possible, these objects should also be considered as noise, at least with respect to the underlying analysis. Consequently, there is a need for data cleaning techniques that remove both types of noise. Because data sets can contain large amounts of noise, these techniques also need to be able to discard a potentially large fraction of the data. This paper explores four techniques intended for noise removal to enhance data analysis in the presence of high noise levels. Three of these methods are based on traditional outlier detection techniques: distance-based, clustering-based, and an approach based on the Local Outlier Factor (LOF) of an object. The other technique, which is a new method that we are proposing, is a hyperclique-based data cleaner (HCleaner). These techniques are evaluated in terms of their impact on the subsequent data analysis, specifically, clustering and association analysis. Our experimental results show that all of these methods can provide better clustering performance and higher quality association patterns as the amount of noise being removed increases, although HCleaner generally leads to better clustering performance and higher quality associations than the other three methods for binary data.
Index Terms- Data cleaning, very noisy data, hyperclique pattern discovery, local outlier factor (LOF), noise removal.
Hui Xiong, Gaurav Pandey, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, "Enhancing Data Analysis with Noise Removal", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, vol.18, no. 3, pp. 304-319, March 2006, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2006.46