Data Mining and Recommendation Engines

Data mining is the process of analyzing large amounts of seemingly disparate data that have been collected through various means to reveal new information through patterns or other methods. Data mining is used in many fields, such as business, science, engineering, medicine, and game design to inform a wide array of processes such as research, business intelligence, and marketing. Data mining is commonly performed on data that are collected about individuals as they interact with online or other networked computer systems. These data may be intentionally provided by the person through profiles and surveys, for example, or may be collected as metadata through automated processes, such as collecting a user’s IP address, browser type, interactions within a system, or even information about other websites a ...