KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION IN DECISION MAKING (SQIT 3033)

NAME: AZURA AZLI BT SUHAIMI NO METRIC: 212500 LECTURER: DR. IZWAN NIZAL B. SHAHARANEE DUE DATE: 6 MARCH 2014

DATA MINING APPLICATION CAN BE UTILIZE IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Data mining is a natural development of the increased use of computerized databases to store data and provide answers to business analysis. Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. The information can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining process also use to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use. Besides that, data mining tools can answer business questions that traditionally were too time consuming to resolve. The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use. Furthermore, Data mining is commonly define in five major element that is selection, pre-processing, transformation, data mining and interpretation or evaluation. As a construction company that based on construction of residential areas, there have a lot of problem that company have to face. From many data that we can get from the company for example cost data, supplier data, material data, labor data and many more, we choose labor data as the main problem. I want to focus on most problem that always happened when the company want to start a new project that is labor. The reason we choose labor data because we want to minimize the data to more specific data for the company to see the labor that involved in a previous project. Furthermore, we want to see what kind of labor that the company always hired, the background, the expertise and the criteria of the labor. The labor data contain 1500 data that show multiple background of the labor. We specific labor that have age range between 20 to 40, labor that have experience doing a construction, expertise (carpenter, electrician, ironworker, plasterer, plumber, pipefitter, sheet metal work, mason), gender male and local.

After the selection process we proceed to the pre-processing step. On this process we need to clean the data to get a high quality of data at the end. Besides that, we also want to remove the error data or predict data that have a missing value in order to get clean data. For the example we can meet duplicate data, same identification number, no gender that have been record for curtain labor and many more. The other reason why we doing this step is to make sure data that we get is correct because it very important in process for choosing the best labor for the next construction project. If the selected labor are wrong the company will face the big impact for example the increase in time-consuming. The third process that we need to do is transformation of the data. We need to convert data from different source into a common format for processing. The data that we get are too big, so for make it more organize we cluster the data criteria for example age we put in in range (20-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40) and class the labor expertise for example labor that expertise in electrician will put in one group. This process will make it more organize and easier for the company to search the labor according to their criteria. Besides that, this process also want to reduce the complexity of the data. Data mining are use intelligent method to extract patterns and knowledge from database. From this stage data mining are able to tell us important things that we didn't know or what is going to happen next. Data mining also can show us the relationship and patterns of the labor. For the example data mining can show us the relationship between age and experience between the labor so that we can know n conclude at what stage of age labor have more experience whether younger or the older labor have more experience. We cannot just simplified that younger labor have less experience without any data or fact. Lastly, interpretation or evaluation is how the result are presented to the company. This process are importance because it will effect to the company result and it will make the company more understand to the data and relationship of criteria to the company search. The result can be presented in various way for example graphical, geometric, icon based and many more. In this stage data mining also will show the validity of the data and also to verify the patterns of labor that occur in this wide data set.

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