Data Mining
Data Mining
Data mining is the process of discovering, analysing, and extracting non-trivial, implicit,
previously unknown, and potentially useful information, patterns, trends, anomalies,
relationships or correlations from raw data.
Data mining is also known as Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD), information harvesting,
Purposes of data mining include:
To reduce risks in risk management
To predict future events in forecasting
To improve customer relationships in businesses
To increase revenue and decrease costs in companies
Major steps throughout data mining involve:
Extract, convert and load data into a data warehouse
Store and manage data in a multidimensional databases
Provide data access to analysts using application software
Present analysed data in presentable or understandable forms