TY - GEN AU - Triguero, Isaac AU - García Gil, Diego Jesús AU - Maillo, Jesús AU - Luengo Martín, Julián AU - García López, Salvador AU - Herrera Triguero, Francisco PY - 2018 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/99393 AB - The k-nearest neighbors algorithm is characterized as a simple yet effective data mining technique. The main drawback of this technique appears when massive amounts of data—likely to contain noise and imperfections—are involved, turning this algorithm... LA - eng PB - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery KW - big data KW - data preprocessing KW - instance reduction KW - K nearest neighbours KW - imperfect data KW - smart data KW - instance reduction KW - spark TI - Transforming big data into smart data: An insight on the use of the k‐nearest neighbors algorithm to obtain quality data DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1289 ER -