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Data Mining

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  … 
    Definition continues below.


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Financial Benefits of a Grid MP Implementation
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Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Benefits of Automating Data Warehousing
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DATA MINING DEFINITION (continued): …  event
  • 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.)

    • Data mining techniques are used in a many research areas, including mathematics, cybernetics, … 
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