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Data mining is the study of collecting, cleaning, processing, analyzing, and gaining useful insights from data. A wide variation exists in terms of the problem domains, applications, formulations, and data representations that are encountered in real applications. Therefore, “data mining” is a broad umbrella term that is used to describe these different aspects of data processing.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”—Thomas More
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Aggarwal, C. (2015). An Introduction to Data Mining. In: Data Mining. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14142-8_1
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