data mining
noun
- process of discovering patterns in large data sets using computational methods at the intersection of statistics, database systems, or machine learning
Wiktionary
noun
- A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.
“Serious application of data mining involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individual cases.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of data mine