Pattern

Pattern is an expression in some language describing a subset of the data or a model applicable to the subset.

[Fayyad et al., 1996]

A pattern is made of recurring events or objects that repeat in a predictable manner. The most basic patterns are based on repetition and periodicity.

[Bertini and Lalanne, 2009]

see Knowledge Discovery for an explanation of the relationship between Data, Information, Insight, Model, Pattern, Hypothesis, Knowledge and Knowledge Crystallization.

References

• [Bertini and Lalanne, 2009] Bertini, E. and Lalanne, D. 2009. Surveying the complementary role of automatic data analysis and visualization in knowledge discovery. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Visual Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: integrating Automated Analysis with interactive Exploration (Paris, France, July 28 - 28, 2009). VAKD '09. ACM, New York, NY, 12-20
• [Fayyad et al., 1996] U. Fayyad, G. P.-Shapiro, and P. Smyth. From data mining to knowledge discovery in databases. AI Magazine, 17(3):37-54, Fall 1996. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fayyad96from.html