ABSTRACT
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
David Whitehouse Renaissance Genius: Galileo Galilei & His Legacy to Modern Science, 2009
Discovery is defined as the act of finding or discovering something. It could be a disease, a drug or hidden patterns, and so on. It can be applied in areas as diverse as data mining, space exploration, forensics investigation, and humans’ growth and development. For example, in data mining, we are dealing with the discovery of hidden patterns and knowledge from the widely available set of data. In space exploration, we are dealing with the discovery or anything that leads humans to have a better understanding of what is beyond our planet. In forensics investigation, the goal is to present a set of findings to a judge, jury, or opposition to help defend or blame a suspect. In human’s growth and development, discovery is seen, when children start discovering and understanding the environment that surrounds them. Every single piece of the environment, such as events, noises, and other humans, is a new discovery for them. As you could see, there is nothing different in the way discovery is handled in any of those areas of application. In fact, discovery is the same in all of them. Therefore, the reason for the analysis of this concept, with the sole purpose of extracting its core knowledge, is a worthwhile reason, especially if you are planning to reuse it in numerous applications, while still maintaining a cost-effective nature.
