Data Mining

Synonyms: Data Extraction, Knowledge Extraction

What is Data Mining? 

Data mining is a process to extract usable information from a large raw data set. Data mining technique has evolved with the growth of big data and increased use of data warehousing, where analytical solutions fail in providing insights. 

Data mining is used to generate predictions and descriptions of any target data set, it can even be used to classify and cluster them using regression and classification methods. 

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