Data Mining as a part of Knowledge Discovery Process
Filed Under Data, Data Mining, Databases, Knowledge | Posted on August 12, 2009
Knowledge discovery in databases typically encompasses more than data mining. The knowledge discovery process comprises six phases : data selection, data cleansing, enrichment, data transformation or encoding, data mining and the reporting and display of the discovered information. Data mining addresses inductive knowledge. Knowledge can be represented in an unstructured sense, it can be represented [...]
Stages and Goals of Data Mining
Filed Under Data, Data Mining | Posted on August 12, 2009
Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data (usually large amounts of data – typically business or market related) in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data. The process of data mining consists of three [...]