Overview

Data Mining is the process of uncovering patterns and other valuable information from large datasets. It is a subfield of computer science and statistics with an overall goal to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use.

Key Techniques

  • Classification: Assigning items to target categories.
  • Clustering: Grouping similar items together.
  • Association Rule Learning: Finding relationships between variables.
  • Anomaly Detection: Identifying unusual data points.

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