Q$1.$ What is data mining? In your answer, address the following:

$($a$)$ Is it another discipline?

$($b$)$ Is it a simple transformation of technology developed from databases, statistics, and machine learning?

$($c$)$ Describe the steps involved in data mining when viewed as a process of knowledge discovery.

Q$2.$ For each data set given below, give specific examples of classification,

clustering, association rule mining and anomaly detection tasks that can be performed on the data. For each task, state how the data matrix should be constructed $($i$.$e$.,$ specify the rows and columns of the matrix$).$

$($a$)$ Ambulatory Medical Care data, which contains the demographic and medical visit information for each patient $($e$.$g$.,$ gender, age, duration of visit, physician's diagnosis, symptoms, medication, etc$).$

$($a$)$ Stock market data, which include the prices and volumes of various stocks on different trading days.