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Data Mining

By Mike Chapple, About.com

Definition: Data mining is the use of automated data analysis techniques to uncover previously undetected relationships among data items. Data mining often involves the analysis of data stored in a data warehouse. Three of the major data mining techniques are regression, classification and clustering.
Also Known As: machine learning, knowledge discovery in databases, KDD

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