Data mining and knowledge discovery in databases have been attracting a significantamount of research, industry, and media attention of late. What is all the excitement about?
This article provides an overview of this emerging
field, clarifying how data mining and knowledge
discovery in databases are related both to each
other and to related fields, such as machine
learning, statistics, and databases. The article mentions particular real-world applications,
specific data-mining techniques, challenges involved in real-world applications of knowledge
discovery, and current and future research directions in the field