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The term is a buzzword, and is frequently misused to mean any form of large-scale data or information processing ( collection, extraction, warehousing, analysis, and statistics ) but is also generalized to any kind of computer decision support system, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and business intelligence.

In the proper use of the word, the key term is discovery, commonly defined as " detecting something new ".

Even the popular book " Data mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java " ( which covers mostly machine learning material ) was originally to be named just " Practical machine learning ", and the term " data mining " was only added for marketing reasons.

Often the more general terms "( large scale ) data analysis ", or " analytics " – or when referring to actual methods, artificial intelligence and machine learning – are more appropriate.