What does "data mining" mean?

A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.

Data mining

Q: What is a synonym for "data mining"?

Common synonyms include: biological analysis, dm, harvesting, pattern detection, pattern finding, trawling.

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Noun

1
A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful. uncountable
"Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases."
2
data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data wordnet

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of data mine form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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biological analysis dm harvesting pattern detection pattern finding trawling

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"Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases."

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