Abstract on Data Mining

It is estimated that the total amount of information in the world doubles every 20 months.This data explosion has meant that the size of databases as well as their numbers have increased dramatically. It is an increasing challenge to make efficient use of this vast amount of information.

As a result of this trend, the field of Knowledge Discovery has been developed to manage and manipulate this data in an efficient manner. Data Mining is a set of techniques that have been developed to extract useful information from this sea of knowledge. Data Mining has wide-ranging applications in a number of fields from the commercial to the academic spheres.


Data mining or knowledge discovery refers to the process of finding interesting information in large repositories of data. The term data mining also refers to the step in the knowledge discovery process in which special algorithms are employed in hopes of identifying interesting patterns in the data. These interesting patterns are then analyzed yielding knowledge. The desired outcome of data mining activities is to discover knowledge that is not explicit in the data, and to put that knowledge to use.