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 event Classification - looking for new patterns (May result in a change in the way the data is organized but that's  … 
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DATA MINING DEFINITION (continued): … 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 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 knownForecasting - 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, genetics and marketing. Web mining, a type of data mining used in customer relationship management (CRM), takes advantage of the huge amount of information gathered by a Web site to look for patterns in user behavior.
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