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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Using special data mining technique, Lee (2007) was able to develop a model that "is reusable for diagnostic, predictive and compositional modeling in a fast and easily scalable manner" within an e-learning web-based environment.

Implications and challenges to using data mining in educational research in the Canadian context

The following are the key directions in the field of privacy-preserving data mining:

Researches on privacy-preserving data mining--a comprehensive review

This study aims to extract and discover new valuable knowledge and patterns and to find the relation between student background information with student performance from educational data of School of Computing of University Utara Malaysia using association rule mining as data mining technique to analyze and mine the postgraduate students' educational data to extract meaningful knowledge regarding the student performance.

MINING STUDENTS DATA TO ANALYZE ACADEMIC PATTERNS FROM EDUCATIONAL DATASETS

Three data mining models used: first was classification by decision tree, second was association rules by FP-Growth approach, and finally clustering by k-Means approach.

Data Mining and Analysis for off Grid Solar PV Power System

They proposed the concept of video data mining based on data mining technology.

Research on the novel video signal processing system based on data mining and pattern clustering

Technical Services available through Graphet Data Mining

GRAPHET DATA MINING LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE WEBSITE

Securing distributed data mining allows cooperative computation of data mining algorithms without requiring the participating organizations to reveal their individuals data items to each other [2].

Secured disclosure of data in multiparty clustering

“We are pleased to offer this introductory webinar to practitioners and leaders who are excited about the prospects of predictive analytics and data mining, but are mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare,” explained Eric King, president of The Modeling Agency.

Introductory Data Mining Webinar Explores Predictive Analytics

Summary: In Part 1 of this series, data mining was introduced as a new methodology for how legal departments can deal with big email.

Big email: How to effectively find the needle in the haystack (Part 2)

Chemists and biomedical researchers, some in academia but most with drug companies, show how the numerical and statistical techniques that comprise data mining can be used in drug discovery.

Data mining in drug discovery

A meta-synthesis study was conducted of 60 research studies on educational data mining (EDM) and their impacts on and outcomes for improving learning outcomes.