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data mining

Analysis of computer data to determine trends. It is used by retailers to find out those items often purchased together. For example, one supermarket chain found that purchases of nappies and beer were linked, and so increased sales by putting beer next to nappies. Store ‘loyalty cards’ enable retailers to profile customers' week-by-week shopping against their age, sex, and address.



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This is exactly what a data miner will allow you to do.
Many patterns may exist in a data set, but only a few may be of interest to the data miner for solving a given problem.
But in the past few years, Cataphora has been dispatching its data miners into a new market: statistical studies of employee performance.
 
 
 
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