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What activity reduces huge amounts of data to smaller sets of meaningful, usable data?
  1. Data mining
  2. Data silos
  3. Data warehousing
  4. SQL querying
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Answer: A - Data mining is the act of reducing huge amounts of data into usable pieces of information. This is mostly done by eliminating data that isn’t interesting and looking for patterns in the rest. These patterns, as opposed to the data that underlie the patterns, are often actionable.
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