Re: Better language
Date: January 23, 2014 05:36PM
SQL is a query language. With SQL, you can make queries to a database to search for some information. However, SQL alone will not allow to perform data mining.
Data mining is about discovering some unknown and interesting complex patterns in the data such as trends, re-occuring patterns, clusters, etc. You cannot do that by just using SQL. You would need to use a programming language.
For choosing a programming language, I would say that any language can do data mining. For example, Python could be ok. It has nice capabilities for text processing. C++ is ok. Java is ok. C# is ok, etc. However, in data mining speed can be an issue and some languages are faster than others. Besides the typical programming languages, there is also some statistical oriented languages such as R that are popular for some data miners.
Lastly, another option is to use some already made data mining tools.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/2014 05:37PM by webmasterphilfv.