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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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Current trends in heterogeneous data mining, privacy-preserving data mining and Web data mining are also discussed.
Company: Lumio Main activity: Web data mining software Founded: 1998 CEO: Maurice Mulvenna HQ: Belfast, Northern Ireland Status: Privately held.
Salford was also a first-place winner in the KDD Cup 2000 Web data mining competition.
 
 
 
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