Data mining is not a new discipline, but rather a new definition for the use of many disciplines.
Data mining is tightly positioned at the intersection of many disciplines, including statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, management science , information system, and database (see Figure 5.2).
Using advances in all of these disciplines, data mining strives to make progress in extracting useful information and knowledge from large databases.
It is an emerging field that has attracted much attention in a very short time.