This document discusses dimensionality reduction techniques for data mining. It begins with an introduction to dimensionality reduction and reasons for using it. These include dealing with high-dimensional data issues like the curse of dimensionality. It then covers major dimensionality reduction techniques of feature selection and feature extraction. Feature selection techniques discussed include search strategies, feature ranking, and evaluation measures. Feature extraction maps data to a lower-dimensional space. The document outlines applications of dimensionality reduction like text mining and gene expression analysis. It concludes with trends in the field.