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data-mining

data-mining is the alternative spelling of data mining.

Meaning of data mining

Noun

data mining (uncountable)

  1. A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.
    • Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases.2005, Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 10

Questions about data-mining

What is data-mining the alternative spelling of?
Data-mining is the alternative spelling of data mining.

Words near data-mining in the dictionary

  1. data-base
  2. data-bases
  3. data-bound
  4. data-driven
  5. data-driven programming
  6. data-mining
  7. data-oriented
  8. data-phobe
  9. data-phobes
  10. data-phobic
  11. data-point

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