Data mining Maryland, Washington DC & Virginia

 

If you are in need of a forensic investigative professional to help collect sensitive or important data, Prudential Associates can help.  Located in Rockville, Maryland, we provide professional, high-quality data mining services for clients throughout Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia.

Data mining, sometimes called data or knowledge discovery, is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. Although data mining is a relatively new term, data mining technology is not. Data mining software is one of a number of ways in which data mining can help analyze data.

 

Data mining can include:

• Extracting, transforming, and loading transaction data onto a data system,
• Storing and managing the data in a multidimensional database system,
• Providing data access to business analysts and information technology professionals,
• Analyzing the data by application software,
• Presenting the data in a useful format, such as a graph or table or evidence in a court of law.

 

Data includes any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed by a computer.  This includes:

 

• Operational or transactional data such as, sales, cost, inventory, payroll, and accounting,
• Nonoperational data, such as industry sales, forecast data, and macro economic data,
• Meta data such as logical database design or data dictionary definitions.

 

Information

The patterns, associations, or relationships among all this data can provide information.

 

Knowledge

Information can be converted into knowledge about historical patterns and future trends.

How does data mining work?

For example, summary information on retail supermarket sales can be analyzed in light of promotional efforts to provide knowledge of consumer buying behavior. Thus, a manufacturer or retailer could determine which items are most susceptible to promotional efforts.

 

While large-scale information technology has been evolving separate transaction and analytical systems, data mining provides the link between the two. Data mining software analyzes relationships and patterns in stored transaction data based on open-ended user queries.

 

Data mining focuses on:

 

• Classes: Stored data is used to locate data in predetermined groups.
• Clusters: Data items are grouped according to logical relationships or consumer preferences.
• Associations: Data can be mined to identify associations.
• Sequential patterns: Data is mined to anticipate behavior patterns and trends.

 

There are many different levels of data analysis which are available in data mining:

 

• Artificial neural networks,
• Genetic algorithms,
• Decision trees,
• Nearest neighbor method,
• Rule induction,
• Data visualization.

 

Prudential Associates utilizes proper legal techniques to collect electronic data and mine forensic evidence in Maryland, Virginia or Washington, DC. To learn more contact Prudential Associates Investigations and Digital Forensics in Rockville, MD.