1. A method for displaying a visual quality indicator for a data mining operation, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a user selected mining technique type for the data mining operation, said user selected mining technique type being used to analyze a collection of data for the data mining operation; identifying a quality measure type for said user selected mining technique type; processing said user selected mining technique type for the data mining operation and measuring a quality indicator using said quality measure type; displaying said measured quality indicator while processing said user selected mining technique type for the data mining operation; and wherein said step of identifying said quality measure type for said user selected mining technique type includes the steps of checking for a user selected quality measure type; and utilizing an identified user selected quality measure type for said user selected mining technique type for the data mining operation; said user selected mining technique type comprising one of association, sequential patterns, classification, clustering/segmentation, and value prediction.