Mining

Mining - a detailed method used by large firms to sort and analyse information to better understand their customers, products, markets, or any other phase of their business for which data has been captures. Mining data relies on statistical analyses, such as analysis of variance or trend analysis.

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Source: Martin Eppler, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 02-Feb-2009 10:36