This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is "Data Mining?" Data mining is the process of extracting useful patterns, correlations and insights from large datasets ...

Data mining is used in computational biology and bioinformatics to detect trends or patterns without knowledge of the meaning of the data. The Mass Query Language (MassQL) enables scientists to ...

Neural networks are ideal for deriving meaning from complicated or imprecise data and can ... Decision trees use real data-mining algorithms to help with classification. A decision-tree process will ...