144. OCR A Level (H446) SLR24 – 2.2 Backtracking, data mining & heuristics


About this video

OCR Specification Reference
A Level 2.2.2f

This is one of a series of six videos where we take a look at various computational methods at your disposal for helping to solve problems. This video focuses on the following methods: Backtracking, Data mining and Heuristics.

Key questions:

- What is backtracking?
- What is data mining?
- What are heuristics?
- How can you use these techniques to help solve problems?

00:00 Backtracking, data mining and heuristics
00:09 Intro
00:14 Other computational methods
00:37 Backtracking
01:48 Data mining
03:37 Heuristics
05:01 Heuristics in computer science
05:32 Key questions
05:47 Outro

Last updated: 27.07.26