Knowledge Discovery in Databases

The huge amount of data, generated by daily-life data sources, represents a big opportunity for the development and advancement in several fields: scientific research, social life and industry. At the same time, analyzing these big repositories is a hard challenge, since the overload of information can overwhelm our capability of reading and understanding data, making finding useful pieces of information a difficult task. In this discussion we give a general overview about Knowledge Discovery in Databases as a scientific discipline that provides methodologies, techniques and tools for dealing with Big Data in order to find underlying knowledge that can be exploited in decision making processes.