DATA MINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does data mining mean? 

• DATA MINING (noun)
  The noun DATA MINING has 1 sense:

1. data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data

  Familiarity information: DATA MINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATA MINING (noun)

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Meaning:

Data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("data mining" is a kind of...):

data processing ((computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information)

 Context examples 

The Resource provides biochemical, hybridization, and scanning services, genome-wide SNP analysis and resequencing analysis, consultation in experimental design and data mining.

(Microarray Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

It aims to establish the state-of-the-art in microarray data mining, as well as identify progress and highlight the direction for future effort.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

A group founded to provide a forum to critically assess different techniques used in microarray data mining.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)