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Data Mining

Twenty-First-Century Gold Rush

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Data mining is a means of producing predictive information from large amounts of data. It is one of the fastest growing methods of forecasting in the business world and is exciting in the prospects it offers for the future.

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Kenny, P. (2014). Data Mining. In: Better Business Decisions from Data. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0184-8_22

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