Question

_______ is discovering unseen patterns from data.

(a) Data Milling

(b) Data Mining

(c) Niching

(d) Machine learning

The question was posed to me in an interview.

The doubt is from Neural Networks in chapter Distributions, Graphics & Neural Networks of R Programming

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) Data Mining

The best explanation: Data mining is the aim of discovering unseen patterns from data. Neural Networks are known to be universal function approximators.