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PCDM and PCDM4MP: New Pairwise Correlation-Based Data Mining Tools for Parallel Processing of Large Tabular Datasets

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  • Daniel Homocianu

    (Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems, and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 700505 Jassy, Romania)

  • Dinu Airinei

    (Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems, and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 700505 Jassy, Romania)

Abstract

The paper describes PCDM and PCDM4MP as new tools and commands capable of exploring large datasets. They select variables based on identifying the absolute values of Pearson’s pairwise correlation coefficients between a chosen response variable and any other existing in the dataset. In addition, for each pair, they also report the corresponding significance and the number of non-null intersecting observations, and all this reporting is performed in a record-oriented manner (both source and output). Optionally, using threshold values for these three as parameters of PCDM, any user can select the most correlated variables based on high magnitude, significance, and support criteria. The syntax is simple, and the tools show the exploration progress in real-time. In addition, PCDM4MP can trigger different instances of Stata, each using a distinct class of variables belonging to the same dataset and resulting after simple name filtering (first letter). Moreover, this multi-processing (MP) version overcomes the parallelization limitations of the existing parallel module, and this is accomplished by using vertical instead of horizontal partitions of large flat datasets, dynamic generation of the task pattern, tasks, and logs, all within a single execution of this second command, and the existing qsub module to automatically and continuously allocate the tasks to logical processors and thereby emulating with fewer resources a cluster environment. In addition, any user can perform further selections based on the results printed in the console. The paper contains examples of using these tools for large datasets such as the one belonging to the World Values Survey and based on a simple variable naming practice. This article includes many recorded simulations and presents performance results. They depend on different resources and hardware configurations used, including cloud vs. on-premises, large vs. small amounts of RAM and processing cores, and in-memory vs. traditional storage.

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  • Daniel Homocianu & Dinu Airinei, 2022. "PCDM and PCDM4MP: New Pairwise Correlation-Based Data Mining Tools for Parallel Processing of Large Tabular Datasets," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(15), pages 1-27, July.
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