Recent developments in data mining applications and techniques

This paper presents recent emerging and active data mining research fields in the period between 2013 and 2015. The research fields include education, healthcare, web, data stream, and big data. The paper starts by explaining the conducted research methodology and basic data mining processes and methods. Then, for each research field, the processes, algorithms, applications, and challenges from the relevant surveys and research are reported. Finally, the paper concludes with challenges encountering data mining research and future research directions that shows possible research gaps in the field and open the door for future research.