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$3$ A successful estate agency is considering expanding its business into a new city. The company wishes to conduct market research about the housing market in that city. It is interested in what types of houses sell quickly and what types of houses sell slowly. The main source of data is a local free newspaper that contains weekly advertisements of house sales by existing local estate agencies.

$($a$)$ Describe any work that should be undertaken in order to prepare the input data for a sensible data analysis.

$($b$)$ If the company is interested in determining which types of houses sell quickly $($within two weeks of the advertisement first appearing$),$ what data mining tasks do we need to perform on the input data prepared in $($a$)?$ What types of pattern can be useful for the purpose?

$($c$)$ How do we measure the interestingness of the patterns discovered in $($b$)?$