Sifting through and analyzing large amounts of data for useful information. Data mining uses artificial intelligence techniques and advanced statistical tools to reveal trends, patterns, and relationships, which might otherwise have remained undetected. In contrast to an expert system (which tries to find inferences from the given data based on a given set of rules) data mining uses these artificial intelligence techniques to discover hidden rules underlying the data that often are not apparent to users.
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