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Having read from great authors and researchers, I had always taken the definition of data mining for granted. Following the tradiitons of Occam's Razor, I tried to summarize one myself but felt the difficulty of covering the entire spectrum of data mining which is ever evolving. Anyways, here is my try...

Data Mining is a process of extraction of non-trivial patterns from massive datasets which either provides descriptive insights of the data (not perceived without this extraction) or pro… Continue

The best place to find this article is at the ‘Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management’ series of articles published in 1990-1991. Interestingly, this article follows one on a similar theme by Ikujiro Nonaka which is quite contrary to what David Garvin suggest… Continue