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Data mining (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

An introductory article about data mining.
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~norman/BUS.FOR/course.mat/Alex/

Data mining: Extending the information warehouse framework (IBM, USA)

Describes data mining and its potential benefits to users. Includes examples.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/iis/hdb/Projects/data_mining/whitepaper.html

Data mining in a scientific environment (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Provides examples of data mining methods used by scientists.
http://www.csu.edu.au/special/auugwww96/proceedings/crawford/crawford.html

Data mining: What is data mining? University of California, Anderson School of Management, USA)

Provides an introduction to the mining of data, information and knowledge.
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/teacher/technologies/palace/datamining.htm

An overview of data mining at Dun and Bradstreet (Thearling.com)

Describes the scope of data mining, data mining techniques and how data mining can be used to extract information from a large database. Written from a business perspective.
http://www.thearling.com/text/wp9501/wp9501.htm