The document introduces various applications of data mining including finance, retail, telecommunications, biology, science, engineering, and intrusion detection. It then provides more details on data mining applications in each of these domains. For financial data analysis, it discusses constructing data warehouses, loan prediction, customer segmentation for marketing, and detecting money laundering. For retail, it discusses data warehouses, sales analysis, customer retention, and product recommendations. For telecommunications, it discusses network analysis, fraud detection, and improving resource usage.