Learning Community-An International Journal of Educational and Social Development
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 3

Web Data Mining: Contemporary and Future Trends: Emphasizing Educational Data Mining [EDM]

1FBAS, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, West Bengal, India

2Department of Education, University of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

3NMTE College, Gazole, Malda, West Bengal, India

*Email: prantoshkpaul@gmail.com

Online published on 15 April, 2014.

Abstract

Data Mining is a kind of knowledge Retrieval or discovery. Data mining is a kind of method which is responsible for the analyzing and retrieval of data from various storage systems and finalize and also summarizing into useful content or information. Web Data Mining is actually nothing but the retrieval of data and similar facet from the World Wide Web or from any online systems. Fundamentally Web Data Mining (WDM) is the application of data mining from the web which includes data from the web documents, hyperlinks between documents usage lots of website and other places. This paper describes about the Web Data Mining its characteristics, benefits including application of Web Data Mining in the educational field.

Keywords

Data Mining, Web Mining, Web Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Data Retrieval, Data Engineering, WDM, Education Data Mining, EDM, Web Structure, Information Science Practice, Data Extracting, Knowledge Discovery