Data Mining: Concepts and Algorithms

Data mining is a process which deals with discovering patterns in large data sets. It incorporates approaches from machine learning, statistics and database systems. Data mining is a subfield of computer science and statistics. The goal of data mining is to extract information patterns and knowledge from large amounts of data and transform the information into a comprehensible structure. The term is frequently applied to any form of large-scale data or information processing, as well as any...