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Data Mining

Data mining is a technology to extract information of predictive use hidden in the database. Along with other uses, data mining is useful for automated predictions of trends and behaviors and automatic discovery of previously unknown patterns. A few of the commonly used data mining algorithm are:

Details of the above uses and algorithm are out of the scope of this report.

Data Mining uses complex aggregates. The following are a few applications using aggregates:





Punit Bhargava
Wed Mar 11 18:50:53 PST 1998