A Beginner’s Guide to Data Mining
Data Mining in the simplest terms, is a process of simplifying large data to generate valuable information or decluttering large amount of data to only extract useful information. Though the word “Data Mining” was not uttered until in 1980’s, when the term was trademarked by HNC to protect their product “DataBase Mining Workstation”, the concept of data mining was already established by Thomas Bayes in 1763. When Bayes published a theorem called Bayes theorem of looking at relationship between the current and prior probabilities. With the invention of computers, the theorem became a step stone to data mining as it allowed to understand reality based on the probabilities that are estimated. 1980’s was also the era which used algorithms to learn about relationships and what they mean by studying the data. Data Mining is a process that involves three elements, studying the relationship of the data, using machine to mimic Continue reading