Glossary

Algorithms – A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations,

especially by a computer.

Classification – the action or process of categorizing or grouping something

Data mining – the practice of examining large pre-existing databases in order to generate new
information.

Recommender system – this is a subclass of information filtering system that seeks to predict the rating
and preference a user would give to an item.

Similarity measure – the measure of how much alike two data objects are. In data mining context, it is a
distance with dimensions representing features of the objects.