Understanding the Classification of Data Mining and Web Mining

Abstract

The amount of data stored in databases is rapidly increasing. This creates the need for new technologies and tools to auto handle and enables humans to manage and analyze large data sets in a smart way to gather useful information. This growing need is generating a new field of research called Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) or Data Mining, which has cached researchers' interest in many different fields including database design, statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data visualization. Web Mining is part of data mining technology, which aims to extract interesting and useful hidden patterns and information from web documents and web activities.