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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.
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
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 ..."