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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Knowledge discovery in databases employs diverse fields of interest including statistics, computer science, and business, as well as an array of methodologies, many still evolving: machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, knowledge acquisition for expert systems, and more.

Knowledge Discovery in Databases

These techniques and tools are the subject of the growing field of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) [5].

Mining business databases

In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (Montreal, Canada), Aug.