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(i)                  Data mining Data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information - information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it, and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases. Data mining is primarily used today by companies with a strong consumer focus - retail, financial, communication, and marketing organizations. It enables these companies to determine relationships among "internal" factors such as price, product positioning, or staff skills, and "external" facto...

Prior to installing Yii, you must configure your application development environment as a web server capable of supporting PHP 5.1.0 or higher. The basic Yii installation is almost trivial. There are really only two necessary steps:             1. Download the Yii Framework from http://www.yiiframework.com/ download/.             2. Unpack the downloaded file to a web-accessible folder. Verify that your server satisfies all of the requirements for using Yii and to ensure the installation was a success Yii comes with a simple requirement checking tool.  To invoke the tool and have it verify the requirements for your installation, simply point your browser to: http://yourhostname/path/to/yii/requirements/index.php . You should see a screen similar to the one below  Installing a database. Though you can use any database that is supported by PHP with Yii, if you want to use some of built-in databa...