Data analysis versus data mining

Understanding the difference can be very important when looking at a content management or document management system. YSDATA had a post about the difference between data analysis and data mining. Data analysis is the act of transforming data and facilitating with the aim of extracting useful informationconclusions. Data mining (DM), also called Knowledge-Discovery in Databases (KDD) or Knowledge-Discovery and Data Mining, is the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns using tools such as classification, association rule mining, clustering, etc.. Read the full description at their site.
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