data mining
noun1
Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.
- Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases.2005, Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 10: