data mining

American  

noun

Digital Technology.

1. the process of collecting, searching through, and analyzing a large amount of data in a database, as to discover patterns or relationships.

   the use of data mining to detect fraud.

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data mining British  

noun

1. the gathering of information from pre-existing data stored in a database, such as one held by a supermarket about customers' shopping habits

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data mining Cultural  

1. The technique of identifying patterns and relationships within large databases through the use of advanced statistical methods.

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Etymology

Origin of data mining

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

Several governments have created special text and data mining exceptions to copyright law to make it easier to collect and use information for training AI.

From Scientific American

The year before, it was Alexander Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, a data mining and artificial intelligence company that gets much of its revenue from government contracts.

From New York Times

Boeing is also using data mining internally to assess quality issues within the factories.

From Seattle Times

And data mining, driven by the abundance of available data and the speed with which computer algorithms can comb through it, involves pulling correlations from data that could be coincidental and imbuing them with meaning.

From Washington Post

Like those interconnected crystal balls, Thiel's firm specializes in data mining and large-scale surveillance, so the name seems appropriate.

From Salon