ALSO CALLED: Datamining, Analytics, Data Dredging, Database Analytics, Datamine, and Data-mining DEFINITION: Data mining is sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships.
Data mining parameters include:
Association - looking for patterns where one event is connected to another event
Sequence or path analysis - looking for patterns where one event leads to another later
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BOOK: Posted: 27 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Classification - looking for new patterns (May result in a change in the way the data is organized but that's ok)
Clustering - finding and visually documenting groups of facts not previously known
Forecasting - discovering patterns in data that can lead to reasonable predictions about the future (This area of data mining is known as predictive analytics.)
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