Data mining methods play an important role in customer management, manufacturing management, and financial management. This paper focuses on the latest research progress from 2012 to the present. The analysis of the progress of existing research will help researchers to better engage in research work in the future. The literature review is classified according to the research field and the data mining methods involved. In each of the research areas, we conduct research classification based on the data mining tools used. Through literature analysis, it can be seen that the degree of attention of neural networks has increased continuously in recent years.