What is data mining? Flashcards
What is data mining (2)?
Extracting or mining knowledge from large amounts of data
What is data?
Any facts, numbers, text, images etc that can be processed by a computer
Data mining is ____ driven
data
What us aim of data mining?
large dataset, interested in building a small model but that describes data well.
Data Mining Definition
The process of selection, extraction and modelling of large quantities of data to discover patterns or relations that are first unknown within the aim of obtaining clear and useful results for the owner of the database.
Process of data mining
Data cleaning Data integration Selections and transformation Data mining Interpretation
Data mining is NOT?
Not simply statistical analysis
Doesn’t eliminate the need to know the business. It assist in finding patterns and relationships in data- but doesn’t provide information regarding the value of these patterns.