What is data mining and what can it do? -- The data mining process -- Problem definition (step 1) -- Data evaluation (step 2) -- Feature extraction and enhancement (step 3) -- Prototyping plan and model development (step 4) -- Model evaluation (step 5) -- Implementation (step 6) -- Supervised learning genre section 1 : detecting and characterizing known patterns -- Forensic analysis genre section 2 : detecting, characterizing, and exploiting hidden patterns -- Genre section 3 : knowledge : its acquisition, representation, and use.