Re: DM: Datamining Definition.

The one I use is:

Fill in the blanks. "If I only knew ________ then I could do ________."
Data mining is providing the answer in the first blank.

--Ed Freeman
--Accrue Software : Converting Clicks to Customers

----- Original Message -----
From: Santrokofi <santrokofi@yahoo.com>
To: <datamine-l@nautilus-sys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: DM: Datamining Definition.


 >
 > Hi Franklin,
 >
 > I hope this definition helps:
 >
 > "Data mining explores mountainous databases, using
 > automated approaches, to reveal meaningful patterns.
 >   The databases may contain numbers, words, graphs, or
 > pictures.   Data from these different sources can be
 > pooled into data warehouses.  Data mining algorithms
 > can then examine numerous multidimensional data
 > relationships concurrently, highlighting those that
 > are noteworthy."
 >
 > Santro Kofi
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > --- Franklin Wayne Poley <culturex@vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Could datamining be fairly defined as "extracting
 >  > data of value from
 >  > text"? (With "text" broadly defined to include
 >  > words, sentences, pictures,
 >  > symbols etc?
 >  > FWP.
 >  >
 >  >
 > http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex/Machine-Psychology.htm
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
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