Here are some
links for those wishing to learn more about data mining and related topics
and resources:
An article titled Defining Data Mining,
by Bruce Moxon. This article appears as a DBMS Data Warehouse Supplement,
August 1996, at DBMS Online. It covers the hows and whys of data mining,
and the differences between data mining and other analytical techniques. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=231900
Here is a useful link to the Wikipedia entry on Data Mining, which includes a good description and other relevant links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining