DATA MINING: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Abstract

Data mining may be regarded as the process of discovering insightful and predictive models from massive data. It is the art of extracting useful information from large amounts of data. It combines traditional data analysis with sophisticated algorithms for processing large amount of data. It is an interdisciplinary field merging concepts from database systems, statistics, machine learning, computing, information theory, and pattern recognition. It has the real potential of becoming part of electrical engineering education. The main objective of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to data mining.