Definition of Data mining

1. Noun. Data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data.

Generic synonyms: Data Processing

Definition of Data mining

1. Noun. A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Data Mining

data file
data flow
data flow diagram
data flow diagrams
data flows
data format
data formatting
data fusion
data glove
data hierarchy
data input device
data link
data management
data miner
data mining (current term)
data model
data modeling
data multiplexer
data paths
data point
data points
data processing
data processor
data rate
data rates
data set
data sets
data smoothing
data store

Literary usage of Data mining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Audit Guide: Auditing & Investigating the Internal Control of Government by Stephen William Lipscomb (2004)
"GAO's approach to data mining is designed to support its overall evaluation of the effectiveness of internal control of a government purchase card program ..."

2. Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"Image and data mining Image mining involves the extraction of implicit knowledge, image-data relationships, or other patterns not explicitly stored in the ..."

3. A Festschrift for Herman Rubin by Anirban DasGupta, Herman Rubin (2004)
"Classification is a fundamental data mining function, and some other functions can be reduced to it. In this paper we propose a novel classification ..."

4. Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering by National Research Council (2002)
"A typical commercial application of data mining is fraud detection for credit cards, ... The majority of these commercial data-mining applications involve ..."

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