S3_DB_DataM

Definition/Theory (Class Summary)
Data mining (the analysis step of the "Knowledge Discovery in Databases" process, or KDD), an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science, is the computational process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence , machine learning , statistics , and database systems. The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use