Data Mining

The exploration and analysis of large quantities of data in order to discover valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately understandable patterns in data

• Data Warehouses
  • Consolidate data from many sources in one large repository
  • Loading, periodic synchronization of replicas
• OLAP
  • Complex SQL queries and views
  • Queries based on spreadsheet-style operations and multidimensional views of data
  • Interactive and online queries
• Data Mining
  • Exploratory search for interesting trends and anomalies