This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is "Data Mining?" Data mining is the process of extracting useful patterns, correlations and insights from large datasets using ...

Is there gold in them there mountains of data? The average large enterprise has terabytes of data on hand — customer information, supplier exchanges, and internal company records that contain data.

The exponentially increasing amounts of data being generated each year make getting useful information from that data more and more critical. The information frequently is stored in a data warehouse, ...