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DATA MINING

Data mining explores how companies and individuals are creating new businesses and services by searching out patterns in electronic data. It focuses especially on how people’s lives increasingly are data mined and modeled, as analysts study the behavior of shoppers, voters, patients, workers and potential terrorists.

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UN expert: data mining a threat to human rightsmore

Unfettered collection of personal data by intelligence agencies is a threat to basic human rights, a U.N.

The Web Knows What You Wantmore

A very compelling article written by BW reporter Baker on how marketing firms are analyzing past customer purchasing...

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I've had a small but significant breakthrough on BusinessWeek's Business Exchange. That's the magazine's social site.

Satisfying the Innovation Worker’s Need for Instant Insightmore

While enterprise search & generalized keyword search engines may be sufficient for some, innovation workers require...

Prediction: Predictive Analytics will Proliferate Marketingmore

“Quantiphobes” be forewarned. Marketing metrics are about to move to the forefront. The predictive power of advanced...

Why Smart Politicians Will Dump Polls and Go Predictivemore

Politicians in the U.S. seem like they couldn’t think or utter a sentence without leaning on polls. But it’s all so...

Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumersmore

Wash post story about how insurance companies are profiling patients by studying their prescriptions.

Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hackmore

seeks insight from IT industry News Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace News US gov't report: Data mining...

Albanian Minerals sees ferrochrome prices rising by 20pct 2011 - 18554...more

185546 - 2011-01-11 - Ferrochrome production is falling in South Africa due to reduced operating capacity, higher...

Dell Cuts Transport Costs Using Probability Theorymore

unreliable.' According to Gallien, Dell's system, while impressive, relied too much on humans for routing decisions.

Data Analysts Captivated by Power of Rmore

a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because...

R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analystsmore

To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it’s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an...

Data Miners on Twittermore

After the LinkedIn and Facebook phenomena, here comes Twitter.

The tech behind 236 eHarmony members getting hitched dailymore

While eHarmony Inc.'s goal is to get its 20 million members married or into long-term relationships, the online...

Data mining can help you get a datemore

If you think online dating profiles with self-shot camera-phone pictures that scream 'Check out my MySpace!' look...

The Four Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovationmore

The rising data flood and the emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation gets done.

An economic lifeline: Text mining customer experiencemore

The gap between what customers expect and what consumers experience with a firm is often expressed in the text fields...

Google's algorithms for human resourcesmore

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is using algorithms to identify employees most likely to leave.

Data Mining You to Death: Does Google Know Too Much?more

The little town of Molfsee, near Kiel in northern Germany, has three lakes, an idyllic open-air museum and a population...

Making Sense of All the Datamore

The emergence of Hadoop and the democratization of Google's approach

Portable Statistica 8more

STATISTICA 8 provides a selection of data analysis, data management, data mining, and data visualization procedures.

Shared data services - the next frontier?more

I have an interest in cloud computing from two angles: software infrastructure via our investment in Zeus (which is...

Bad Online Reputation? How Experts Can Make You Look Goodmore

that data then floats to the top of the Web. "As social media and mobile media exploded and data mining has gotten...

GeeYee : Opinion Miningmore

Bing Liu, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is one of the founders of GeeYee: GeeYee is the industry...

Predictive Analytics: What Have You Done For Me Lately?more

Make your future by taking action on insight in the "here and now."

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