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Modelling is what we most often think of when we think of data mining. Modelling is the process of taking some data (usually) and building a simplified description of the processes that might have generated it. The description is often a computer program or mathematical formula. A model captures the knowledge exhibited by the data and encodes it in some language. Often the aim is to address a specific problem through modelling the world in some form and then use the model to develop a better understanding of the world.
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Williams, G. (2011). Descriptive and Predictive Analytics. In: Data Mining with Rattle and R. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9890-3_8
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