Association Rule Mining: An Overview

Data mining is the process of discovering previou sly unknown, undiscovered and hidden patterns from large information repositories like relational databases and warehouses. It is of great importance in the re cent time where the amount of data has reached to gigabytes and even terabytes. Data mining makes use of various techniques such as Clustering, Classification, Association Rule Mining and Regression. Association Rule Mining finds association between the items in the database. This paper gives us a brief idea regardin g Association Rule Mining and applications of association rule mining in different areas for effective decision making.