Question

QUESTION 3

1. The process of searching through many records in one or more databases looking for patterns or relationships is called:

   	A.	credit reporting
   	B.	data mining
   	C.	information gathering
   	D.	microtargeting
   	E.	pattern matching

Answer 1

The process of searching through many records in one or more databases looking for patterns or relationships is called: data mining

Option B data mining is correct option

Data mining is the process of analyzing hidden patterns of data according to different perspectives for categorization into useful information, which is collected and assembled in common areas, such as data warehouses, for efficient analysis, data mining algorithms, facilitating business decision making and other information requirements to ultimately cut costs and increase revenue.

Data mining is also known as data discovery and knowledge discovery.

Here the other options

Pattern matching means-

Pattern matching in computer science is the checking and locating of specific sequences of data of some pattern among raw data or a sequence of tokens. Unlike pattern recognition, the match has to be exact in the case of pattern matching.So this option is wrong.

Information Gathering refers to just collecting information it does not check any relationship or pattern. So this option is also incorrect.

And micro targeting and credit reporting are irrelevant to the given question.

So the the option B.Data Mining is the correct option.