data mining

See also: datamining and data-mining

English

Alternative forms

• data-mining, datamining

Noun

data mining (uncountable)

1. (databases) A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.
   • 2005, Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 10:

     Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases.

Descendants

• → Japanese: データマイニング (dēta mainingu)

Translations

technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns

Afrikaans: datamyning Arabic: تنقيب في البيانات Chinese: Mandarin: 數據挖掘 / 数据挖掘 (zh) (shùjù wājué) Czech: data mining n, dolování dat n Finnish: tiedonlouhinta French: exploration de données (fr), fouille de données f, forage de données (fr) m, prospection de données f, orpaillage (fr) m German: Data-Mining (de) n, Datamining (de) n Greek: εξόρυξη δεδομένων (el) f (exóryxi dedoménon) Japanese: データマイニング (dēta mainingu) Korean: 데이터 마이닝 (deiteo maining) Persian: کاوش در داده‌ها, داده کاوی Russian: добы́ча да́нных f (dobýča dánnyx), интеллектуа́льный ана́лиз да́нных m (intellektuálʹnyj análiz dánnyx) Spanish: minería de datos f

Verb

data mining

1. present participle and gerund of data mine

Further reading

• data mining on Wikipedia.Wikipedia