Data Mining
- 31 October 2001
- book chapter
- Published by Wiley
Abstract
Data mining is a new discipline that has sprung up at the confluence of several other disciplines, stimulated chiefly by the growth of large databases. The basic motivating stimulus behind data mining is that these large databases contain information that is of value to the database owners, but this information is concealed within the mass of uninteresting data and has to be discovered. That is, one is seeking surprising, novel or unexpected information, and the aim is to extract this information. This means that the subject is closely allied to exploratory data analysis. However, issues arising from the sizes of the databases, as well as ideas and tools imported from other areas, mean that there is more to data mining than merely exploratory data analysis.Keywords
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