Data Mining: Various Tasks Which Can Be Performed in Data Mining Are

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DATA MINING

Data Mining is the efficient discovery of previously unknown, valid, potentially useful,
understandable patterns in large datasets. The analysis of observational data sets to find
relationships and to summarize the data in novel ways that are both understandable and useful to
the data owner is data mining.

It is also called Knowledge Discovery Process:

Various tasks which can be performed in Data Mining are:

1. Classification: learning a function that maps an item into one of a set of predefined classes

2. Clustering: identify a set of groups of similar items

3. Dependencies and associations: identify significant dependencies between data attributes

4. Summarization: find a compact description of the dataset or a subset of the dataset

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