# Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - ToA The magic words that some set of people associate with trying to discover public knowledge KDD can also refer to knowledge discovery in Databases ([Text mining - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mining)) According to [Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - IBM](https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=144) it is generically “extracting useful knowledge from data” [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Knowledge+Discovery+and+Data+Mining+-+ToA) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Knowledge+Discovery+and+Data+Mining+-+ToA)