Data mining is a buzz term that many people have heard in recent months or years. However, this tool for understanding the world that we live in remains underappreciated and generally misunderstood by ...

Data mining is an analytical process designed to explore and analyze large data sets to discover meaningful patterns, correlations and insights. It involves using sophisticated data analysis tools to ...

Supporters of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) have long touted its potential to transform financial data mining and analysis. Now that potential is starting to become a reality, thanks ...

Aside from regression analysis (the intricacies and subsets of which you can read more about in this Harvard Business Review primer), predictive analytics is also using progressively more data mining ...

No business can be data-driven if the only people interested in data analysis are the analysts. Just as the guidance of accountants and attorneys shapes everyday business, analytics must be integrated ...

Business intelligence analysts, marketers, and analytics mavens use many tools and techniques to extract useful information from all the meaningful data people generate every moment in every aspect of ...

On Wednesday, data mining and analysis solutions provider Actfore announced that it has spun off from discovery, privacy compliance and data governance provider ActiveNav. As an independent company, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...