Common applications of data mining include fraud detection and marketing, but data mining has also been applied in paleoecology, and medical genetics as described on this website from the University of Helsinki. The...

Trying to find patterns in numbers is one of the greatest challenges in mathematics. Some researchers make it their primary area of investigation, perhaps with entire projects devoted to developing algorithms for the...

KD Nuggets posts articles on Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Genomic Mining, Web Mining that range from the serious to the silly, along with other resources. Current and past issues are available to 1993, and the site...

If you are inspired to try the process, the Weka Machine Learning Project from Waikato University offers open source software that can be used for data mining tasks. Visitors can also find the projects 1993 to 2006...