What is data mining in computer science field?
Data mining refers to a method of gathering collections of data and producing information that it wasn’t necessarily created to produce. For example, let’s say a company maintains a database of all companies in the country. This data not only contains company name, address, and the usual stuff, but things like number of employees, date of incorporation, industry type and such. Data mining would enable the user to search for information and gather “cubes” of data that might reveal the number of businesses in a particular industry in a region that were all formed on or about a certain date. Even if that wasn’t the original purpose for collecting the data. Whatis.com defines data mining as: “Data mining is sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships. Data mining parameters include: Association – looking for patterns where one event is connected to another event Sequence or path …
