Intelligent Data Analysis

Abstract

Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) is an interdisciplinary study concerned with the effective analysis of data. IDA draws the techniques from diverse fields, including artificial intelligence, databases, high-performance computing, pattern recognition, and statistics. These fields often complement each other (e.g., many statistical methods, particularly those for large data sets, rely on computation, but brute computing power is no substitute for statistical knowledge) (Berthold & Hand 2003; Liu, 1999).