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Explain data mining please.
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Post by
TimeTrap
Hello there, I'm not really understanding what
data mined
is/means. Could someone explain it to me as if I were 5 years old?
Post by
headpiker
Im pretty sure you are referring to the term
datamined
, so lets see what the wiki tells us about it!
Data mining (the analysis step of the "Knowledge Discovery in Databases" process, or KDD), a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science, is the process that results in the discovery of new patterns in large data sets. It utilizes methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and database systems. The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract knowledge from an existing data set and transform it into a human-understandable structure for further use. Besides the raw analysis step, it involves database and data management aspects, data preprocessing, model and inference considerations, interestingness metrics, complexity considerations, post-processing of found structures, visualization, and online updating.
Lots of information right here :D
Post by
Roadblock
Data mining (in the context of WoW) is "digging" into the game files of the client to extract information about items, attributes, spells etc.
Where
- digging part is done with appropriate software tools i.e. programs that can peek inside game files.
- game files are some of the files World of Warcraft installs on your computer.
- client is that same local installation of WoW as opposed to the software at the other end (Blizzard's wow servers)
In short, the term is an analogy where similarly to how you use a process (mining) to separate or extract the metals from an orebody, you use appropriate software tools to extract information (data) from game files.
Post by
422399
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Adamsm
It's also important to remember that not all of the data mined information makes it in.
Post by
yukonjack
It's also important to remember that not all of the data mined information makes it in.
Aint that the truth.
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Post by
TimeTrap
Thanks for all the info! So where could one read this datamined info?
Post by
wrlwnd
All the items here in the database were originally datamined from WOW. Some additional information may have been added after the patch went live. A good example of current datamined info is in
this
thread from the general forums. You can find many of these there and also in the MoP portion of the database. This data in the thread was datamined by the staff here at Wowhead for our use.
Post by
TimeTrap
I get it now, ty.
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