Data mining Process of semi-automatically analyzing large databases to find patterns that are valid: hold on new data with some certainty a novel non-obvious to the system useful: should be possible to act on the item understandable: humans should be able to interpret the pattern a also known as Knowledge discovery in Databases(KDD)Data mining ◼ Process of semi-automatically analyzing large databases to find patterns that are: ◼ valid: hold on new data with some certainity ◼ novel: non-obvious to the system ◼ useful: should be possible to act on the item ◼ understandable: humans should be able to interpret the pattern ◼ Also known as Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)