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Data Mining
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Data Mining
The practice of looking for a pattern in a large amount of seemingly random data. Data mining is usually done with a computer program and helps in marketing. That is, a company can look at the (publicly available) purchase patterns of a person or group of persons and determine what products to direct at them.
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The papers discuss data mining techniques applied to data warehouse Web logs, data cubes, and high-dimensional datasets; techniques utilizing pattern comparisons, frequent patterns, and vertical mining patterns; data mining applications in bioinformatics, including hierarchical classification, topological analysis, and sub-network mining; and data-mining techniques using multiple criteria optimization, support vector machine classifiers, graph-based mining, and Web services.
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Data-mining capability enables staff to enhance the quality of this information by facilitating knowledge discovery in these databases.
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Of the 199 data-mining efforts identified by the GAO, 122 are using personal information, and many of these efforts use sensitive private-sector data such as credit reports or bank account numbers.
Digging deeper into data mining by Piazza, Peter / Security Management
 
 
 
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