Investigating the Status of Data Mining in Practice

Abstract

This paper is based on a survey carried out in the Malaysian environment. The paper starts with a definition of data warehouses, data mining and this is followed by a description of its current status in the Malaysian data mining environment. This is followed by a discussion on why data mining is a great challenge for an implementation in the Malaysian environment. Based on the feedback obtained from the respondents, a conclusion is drawn on the appropriateness of the data mining techniques in the Malaysian environment