Final Term Paper Topic: Data Mining Prepared by Linda Stodtko Abstract of the Paper The paper will first define and describe what is data mining. It will also seek to determine why data mining is useful and show that data mining is concerned with the analysis of data and the use of techniques for finding patterns and regularities in sets of data. The background of data mining will be investigated in order to validate the …showed first 75 words of 3987 total…

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