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Welcome to The Data Mine, established in 1994 to provide high quality information about Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

What is Data Mining?

In essence, Data Mining is the use of computers to help make sense of information. Typically, special techniques are used to find patterns in data. For more detail see this good overview article on Data Mining

Data Mining Software

We maintain a List of Data Mining Software

. This includes both Free Data Mining Software and Commercial Data Mining Software. You can also add information about data mining software

Organizations involved in Data Mining

We also hold information on Data Mining Companies and Data Mining Research Groups in our Organizations Directory

Looking for Information?

There are 5 seperate Data Mining

topic areas (known as "webs"), each with an index

(see below). You could also start with the Introduction To Data Mining

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Popular pages include: Data Mining Books And Papers

, OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP)

, Data Mining Journals

, Data Mining Tutorials

, Data Sources

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has always succeeded with input from the data mining community. We make use of the Foswiki

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Disclaimer - The information provided here does not neccessarily represent my opinions. Much of the information has been provided by other people, but does not necessarily represent their opinions or those of their companies or organisations.