What is Data mining

What is Data Mining?

Data miningis the process of automatically discovering useful information in large data repositories.

Dat a Mining Tasks

Predictive tasks
to predict the value of a particular attribute based on the value of other attributes
Descriptive tasks
to derive patterns such as correlations, trends, clusters, trajectories, and anomalies that summarize the underlying relationships in data
Attribute types

Nominal
The values of nominal attribute are just different names
Ordinal
The values of an ordinal attribute allow to order objects

Interval
The difference between interval attribute are meaningful

Ratio
Both differences and ratios are meaningful for ratio attributes