
68 • e CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions
Data Mining
Automatic discovery is considered a close adjunct to data mining. Data
mining soware amplies our ability to navigate and analyze information
so that it can be rapidly turned from discrete and disconnected pieces of
data into real intelligence.
Data mining can not only help us in knowledge discovery, i.e., the identi-
cation of new phenomena, but it is also useful in enhancing our understand-
ing of known phenomena. One of the key steps in data mining is pattern
recognition, namely, the discovery and characterization of patterns in
image and other high-dimensional data. A pattern ...