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Difference Between Spatial and Temporal Data Mining

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Difference between Spatial and Temporal Data Mining

Data Mining is an information discovery process that integrates the organization


of large databases to discover implicit patterns that have significant value. Spatial
data mining and temporal data mining are two important sub-disciplines in data
mining as both of them involve data having either spatial or temporal attributes.
Spatial mining is the process of discovering interesting spatial patterns referring
to the domain of geography or space where as temporal mining deals with finding
interesting patterns that reflect the time domain. By drawing a clear line between
these two the business and researchers can analyze its data and gain meaningful
insights.

What is Spatial Data Mining?

Spatial Data Mining is the process of discovering interesting and previously


unknown, but potentially useful patterns from spatial databases. In spatial data
mining analysts use geographical or spatial information to produce business
intelligence or other results. Challenges involved in spatial data mining include
identifying patterns or finding objects that are relevant to the research project.

Advantages of Spatial Data Mining

● Insight Into Geographical Patterns: Spatial statistics assists in


identifying such features that would otherwise, lay undetected, by
enabling organizations and researchers, to identify trends concerning
the area.
● Better Decision Making: Spatial data mining is thus applicable in
areas such as urban planning, environmental management, and
logistics resources in organizations to make a wise decision.
● Enhanced Visualization: The data collected at the different spatial
levels can be presented and represented in maps, which gives a better
view of the trends and patterns.
Disadvantages of Spatial Data Mining

● Complexity of Data: This means that the raw data may be huge and
intricate, making the application of complex algorithms necessary
together with huge computing facilities for
● data processing
● .
● Data Inaccuracy: Some mistakes can be made while collecting the
data like wrong geographical coordinates of any place and wrong
conclusions can be drawn as a result of that.

What is Temporal Data Mining?

Temporal data refers to the extraction of simple, non-trivial and potentially useful
abstract information from large collection of temporal data. It is concerned with
the analysis of temporal data and for finding temporal patterns and regularities in
sets of temporal data tasks of temporal data mining are –

● Data Characterization and Comparison


● Cluster Analysis
● Classification
● Association rules
● Prediction and Trend Analysis
● Pattern Analysis

Advantages of Temporal Data Mining

● Trend Identification: Forecasting is also beneficial in identification of


temporal factors such as seasonality, cycle and trends, or generation of
long-term shifts.
● Forecasting: It can be used in a predictive way to help the
organization on how they can be prepared to face the future outcomes
or trends.
● Anomaly Detection: One of the strengths of temporal data mining is
that it is able to identify patterns that change frequently especially
where there is evidence of sharp changes which may point to either an
event or a problem.

Disadvantages of Temporal Data Mining

● Handling Data Complexity: A lot of times, time-series data will be


some kind of dependent relationship with time points, and this makes
analysis very difficult.
● Requires Large Historical Data: The problem of temporal data mining
is that it might take a large amount of historical data to find useful
patterns which is not always feasible.

Difference Between Spatial and Temporal Data Mining

Spatial data mining Temporal data mining

It requires space. It requires time.

Spatial mining is the extraction of Temporal mining is the extraction of


knowledge/spatial relationship and knowledge about occurrence of an
interesting measures that are not event whether they follow Cyclic ,
explicitly stored in spatial database. Random ,Seasonal variations etc.

It deals with implicit or explicit


It deals with spatial (location ,
Temporal content , from large
Geo-referenced) data.
quantities of data.

Spatial databases reverses spatial


Temporal data mining comprises
objects derived by spatial data.
the subject as well as its utilization
types and spatial association
in modification of fields.
among such objects.

It includes finding characteristic It aims at mining new and unknown


rules, discriminant rules, knowledge, which takes into
association rules and evaluation account the temporal aspects of
rules etc. data.

It is the method of identifying


unusual and unexplored data but It deals with useful knowledge from
useful models from spatial temporal data.
databases.

Examples – Determining hotspots , Examples – An association rule


Unusual locations. which looks like – “Any Person who
buys a car also buys steering lock”.
By temporal aspect this rule would
be – ” Any person who buys a car
also buys a steering lock after that
“.

Conclusion

Spatial data mining focuses on the discovery of patterns existing within the spatial
data while temporal data mining focuses on the discovery of patterns that exist
over a particular time interval. Spatial data mining is a process of extracting
patterns according to location and temporal data mining deals with time series.
These two are mandatory for various areas with spatial data mining been
significant for geographical or location transaction while temporal data mining
focuses on time dependent trend. It is important to understand the difference
between the two in order to choose the right one depending on whether the data
is continuous or in case of hypothesis testing.

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