Generally, data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information - information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it, and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases.

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Test Management

Hi,

Data mining is a term that refers to searching a large data set in an attempt to detect hidden or low-level patterns. In effect, you are "digging around" until you find something useful. You do not look for obvious things but instead look for more subtle, more pervasive things that are not primary characteristics. You are looking for correlations that don't crop up right away - until you find the correlation and work backwards to figure out why that correlation exists.

Hey guys, I have heard about data mining, But I did not hear about the connection between XML and datamining. It is good to hear about it here. Thxs for sharing it. I have one more question, Data mining is a software??? I don't think so...

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Harney,

It is nice to read explanation about Data mining, I'd been asking myself what is data mining? and how to do it. thank you for sharing this information.