Data mining is concerned with finding latent patterns in large data bases. The goal is to discover unsuspected relationships that are of practical importance, e.g., in business.

A broad range of statistical and machine learning approaches are used in data mining. See, for example, XLMiner online help for description of the major techniques specific to data mining.

See also short online courses:

Introduction to Data Mining ,

Data Mining: Unsupervised Techniques .