Solar Energy Validation for Strategic Investment Planning via Comparative Data Mining Methods: An Expanded Example within the Cities of Turkey

Table 1

Data analysis task and techniques [6].

Data analysis techniques	Data summarization	Segmentation	Classification	Prediction	Dependency analysis
Descriptive; and; visualization	•	•			•
Correlation; analysis					•
Cluster; analysis		•
Discriminant; analysis			•
Regression; analysis				•	•
Neural networks
Case-based reasoning					•
Decision; trees			•	•
Association rules					•