data mining
the process of collecting, searching through, and analyzing a large amount of data in a database, as to discover patterns or relationships: the use of data mining to detect fraud.
Origin of data mining
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How to use data mining in a sentence
One shudders to think what the Gestapo might have done with just a handful of the data-mining tools currently employed by the NSA.
Back in 2006 when I was interviewing doctors for an article about prescription data mining, few of them knew that it occurred.
Birth control and data mining used to be things they believed in, now both are Big Government plots to be stopped.
Yes, crèche displays and telephone data mining are different things.
Obama Is Giving Up Some Executive Power, and He’ll Still Get No Credit | Michael Tomasky | August 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTLloyd Green on why members of Congress from both sides of the aisle like government data mining.
"The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said.
Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for data mining
the gathering of information from pre-existing data stored in a database, such as one held by a supermarket about customers' shopping habits
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for data mining
The technique of identifying patterns and relationships within large databases through the use of advanced statistical methods.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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