diff --git a/guide/english/computer-science/data-mining/index.md b/guide/english/computer-science/data-mining/index.md index 37adc69f58..553d4830b9 100644 --- a/guide/english/computer-science/data-mining/index.md +++ b/guide/english/computer-science/data-mining/index.md @@ -2,9 +2,16 @@ title: Data Mining --- ## Data Mining +Data mining is the process in which large sets of data are analysed by computers in order to identify trends, and to solve problems which require complex data analysis. +## What is Data Mining? +Data mining is the way in which computers search huge repositories of data and apply an algorithm to explore specific trends, patterns etc that the user is looking for. +The way in which data mining works is through the use of models, built by data scientists/programmers, which usually use complex mathematical algorithms. This utilises both the ingenuity of the programmer, and in turn the brute force of the computer. As a result, large-scale patterns can be identified by the computer, which help to better answer the question posed by the researcher. -Data Mining is the process of sorting through large data sets to identify patterns and extract information which is then usually transferred into a comprehensible structure. +## Uses +Data mining has many uses, some of which include: banking, retail, astronomy, medicine and government security. It can also be used for deep learning, which involves the training of virtual 'neural networks' for specific tasks. A notable use of this was by the DeepMind team, who created the system AlphaGo, which beat the go world champion 4-1 in a series heralded as a historic breakthrough for artifical intelligence. AlphaGo involved the use of thousands of previous game records to train the neural network (i.e data mining). #### More Information: -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining + +Oracle Data Mining article +Encyclopedia Britannica - Data Mining