In this paper, we present a framework for categorical data analysis which allows such data sets to be explored using a rich set of techniques that are only applicable to continuou...
Formal concept analysis (FCA) has been applied successively in diverse fields such as data mining, conceptual modeling, social networks, software engineering, and the semantic we...
For categorical data there does not exist any similarity measure which is as straight forward and general as the numerical distance between numerical items. Due to this it is ofte...
Clustering, in data mining, is useful to discover distribution patterns in the underlying data. Clustering algorithms usually employ a distance metric based (e.g., euclidean) simi...
Wedescribea novel approachfor clustering collectionsof sets,andits applicationto theanalysis and mining of categoricaldata. By "categorical data," we meantableswith fiel...
David Gibson, Jon M. Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan