Data Mining(1)

What is Data Mining?

Data mining is actually a misnomer of KDD, knowledge discovery from data, who means extraction of interesting (non-trivial, implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful) patterns or knowledge from massive data.

The process of Data Mining

Object for data mining

Obviously, the object is data. What data? Thinking of the structure of data, we can divide the data into unstructured data and structured data or semi-structured data.

Unstructurd Data

Like the web data and text data.
Mmultimedia data such as videos, graphs, music.
Social networks and information networks.
Data from sensor…

Structured Data or semi-structured data

Relational data or object-relational data…

Views when Data Mining

Data Mining is a work of multi-dimensional view.

• Data to be mined
• Knowledge to be mined
• Methodologies or techniques utilized
• Applications adapted