It is interesting to note that Paul McFedries has described 26 words for data mining in his article at IEEE Spectrum. Below is a list of the words and their links to Wikipedia for your reading.
- knowledge engineers
- data preprocessing
- data warehouse
- data mart
- data cleansing
- dirty data
- noise
- knowledge discovery
- diapers and beer (seriously!)
- pattern mining
- association rules
- text mining
- audio mining
- audio indexing
- image mining
- video mining
- spatial mining
- geospatial mining
- crowd mining
- web mining
- data dredging
- data fishing
- data snooping
- automated data mining
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