Data Mining

What's data mining ?

Data mining is a huge field in computer science that's the foundation of of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and database systems.
I know that you may have thought when do we even use that ? We don't interact with excel data bases everyday neither do we work for the government or any huge agencies  but i'm going to make it easy for you and explain to you how in every small application on any device we have there has to be a method of data mining that has been collecting data and we don't even feel that.

Generally, data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information -  Data mining techniques is required in every application so that it would be able to make a better use of the data inputed.

How does data mining work ?

Data mining parameters include:

• Association - looking for patterns where one event is connected to another event
• Sequence or path analysis - looking for patterns where one event leads to another later event
• Classification - looking for new patterns (May result in a change in the way the data is organized but that's ok)
• Clustering - finding and visually documenting groups of facts not previously known
• Forecasting - discovering patterns in data that can lead to reasonable predictions about the future (This area of data mining is known as predictive analytics).

Examples in our lives :

1- Pokemon go :it finds the best location to put power ups and tools through the data collected from pokemon go users across the globe and they map all these coordinates and update  the server based on that data 

2-Apple maps has to store billions of coordinates and location details in the most compact space to be at the reach of every user at the fastest response time and they analyze all this data that comes from  the satellites through complex data mining applications that take users' input too.

References:
1-http://www.invensis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/12-Data-Mining-Tools-and-Techniques-Invensis.png
2-http://www.laits.utexas.edu/~anorman/BUS.FOR/course.mat/Alex/dm.gif
3-https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/techvibes/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Apple-Maps.jpg