Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive
data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning,
statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield
of computer science and statistics with an overall goal of extracting
information (with intelligent methods) from a data set and transforming the
information into a comprehensible structure for further use. Data mining is
the analysis step of the "knowledge discovery in databases" process, or KDD.