Summary
E-commerce is the killer-domain for data mining
Automatic generation of data warehouse and closing the loop back to store is key to making data mining usable and actionable
Clickstreams need to be collected at the app-server level where meta information exists
Challenges: Date handling, unknown vs. N/A, hierarchy support, constantly changing sites, scalability, and more
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