What is data mining? In your answer, address the following:

(a) Is it a simple transformation or application of technology developed from databases, statistics, machine learning, and pattern recognition?

(b) Someone believes that data mining is an inevitable result of the evolution of information technology. If you are a database researcher, show data mining is resulted from a nature evolution of database technology. What about if you are a machine learner researcher, or a statistician?

(c) Describe the steps involved in data mining when viewed as a process of knowledge discovery.