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data mining
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The automatic extraction of useful, often previously unknown information from large databases or data sets.

data mining
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(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) the gathering of information from pre-existing data stored in a database, such as one held by a supermarket about customers' shopping habits
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Noun1.data mining - data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data
data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information


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Current trends in heterogeneous data mining, privacy-preserving data mining and Web data mining are also discussed.
Company: Lumio Main activity: Web data mining software Founded: 1998 CEO: Maurice Mulvenna HQ: Belfast, Northern Ireland Status: Privately held.
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