Data Mining Process

Data mining is the process of extracting useful information from masses of data by extracting patterns and trends from the data.

Data mining requires a problems definition, collection and cleansing of data, and model building. Much of the time spent in a typical data mining project is devoted to understanding and processing data. For detailed information about the data mining process, see Chapter 1 “What Is Data Mining?” in Oracle Data Mining Concepts, http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=db112&id=DMCON002, if you connect to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) or http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=db121&id=DMCON002 if you connect to Oracle Database 12g Release 1 (12.1).