data mining

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

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.
    • Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases. - 2005, Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 2nd...

Forms

data-mining datamining

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of data mine

Forms

data-mining datamining