ABSTRACT
Data mining is a widely researched area where in we extract information, from large
amount of data which is accumulated over several years, even decades. We have to preprocess
the data, structure the data, analyze the data using various statistical methods, use various
algorithms over the data and these steps may have to be repeated several times, that too not in the
order of their appearance. Obviously, the task is not easy. The knowledge is hidden and it is
viewable only for those who have the expertise of extracting it. There are various methods of
extracting the knowledge. We are utilizing several techniques and algorithms Data mining is the
process of extracting hidden patterns from data. Data mining is becoming an increasingly
important tool to transform this data into information. A lot of research has been done on these
various data mining fields and algorithms. Extraction of valuable data from large dataset is an
emerging problem. Apriori algorithm is the algorithm to extract association rules from dataset. .
In this project we implement the efficient algorithms (Apriori ) used to mine the frequent
patterns. The Apriori algorithm generates candidate set during each pass. It reduces the dataset
by discarding the infrequent itemsets that do not meet the minimum threshold from the candidate
sets. We focused on the operation of Apriori algorithm, and generate strong association rule
between frequent items .These algorithm implement in the .Net platform and create GUI in
visual studio 2010 framework.