Data mining is the process of extracting patterns from data. As more data are gathered, with the amount of data doubling every three years, data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform these data into information. It is commonly used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection and scientific discovery. While data mining can be used to uncover patterns in data samples, it's important to be aware that the use of non-representati… (More on Data-mining)