Introduction to data mining

The term “mining” normally means the extraction or the process of extracting something. Data mining is the process of extracting data or discovering information from data. Data mining is a growing and ever-developing concept that discovers hidden, unexpected, and other various forms of information from datasets or databases, which helps in KD and decision-making.

In terms of data, mining is used as a form of analysis to discover patterns, hidden facts, and more. When knowledge is discovered using mining techniques, this is known as knowledge discovery in databases (KDD or knowledge discovery and data mining). There are plenty of terms used to describe data mining, such as KDD, information harvesting, pattern discovery from databases, and many more; although the final results are the same, these terms differ in the steps and processing architecture.

Important note

KDD is an almost cyclical process that has data mining as one of its...