data mining

See also: datamining and data-mining

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data mining (uncountable)

  1. (databases) A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.
    • 2005, Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 10:
      Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases.

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  • → Japanese: データマイニング (dēta mainingu)

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