Understanding Data Mining

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Data mining is a relatively unique process. In most standard database operations, nearly all of the results presented to the user are something that they knew existed in the database already. Data mining, on the other hand, extracts information from a database that the user did not know existed. Relationships between variables and customer behaviors that are non-intuitive are the jewels that data mining hopes to figure out. This is where visualization comes in.

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