Data mining, sometimes used synonymously with “knowledge discovery,” is the process of sifting large volumes of data for correlations, patterns, and trends. It is a subset of data science that ...

Association rules are about discovering interesting relationships between ... new unclassified records with known examples and patterns. 8. Decision trees. Decision trees use real data-mining ...

and clothing patterns, such as solid, striped, plaid, and so on. Finally, they let the machine lose on the 15 million photos in their data set and then used another algorithm to search for ...

S eeking to shed light on inconsistent brain activation patterns observed in previous studies of smell, a team of researchers in Lyon, France, used data mining techniques to analyze the pleasant ...

The most interesting thing about the study ... clear idea of what one is looking for and expects to find. Data mining just looks for patterns and inevitably finds some. There are even stronger ...

Data-mining and computer-led textual analysis uncovered patterns in Shakespeare’s work that a human observer, trained in traditional academic reading methods, would never see. Such as the fact ...

With enough data at your command, a large group of humans can be coaxed into accomplishing practically any task. Even, as Alexander Pentland recently proved, when that task involves driving around ...