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Data Mining Briefly Explained

Posted by timothy on from the morally-neutral dept.

handy_vandal writes "Time.com has published an interesting article on data mining." Note the prominent sticker ;)

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  1. Print Link by VargrX · · Score: 4, Informative

    dunno 'bout any one else, but I don't care for all the ads...
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  2. Already used in mineral exploration by core+plexus · · Score: 4, Informative
    We've been using data mining in mineral exploration for quite some time now, and it really helps given the tremendous volums of data generated from modern geophysical, geochemical, and geological exploration.

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  3. Before You Jeer... by robbyjo · · Score: 3, Informative

    You may want to read this book and see it yourself whether data mining would make a breakthrough in the future.

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  4. Objection to the numbers by rootmonkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article use NASDAQ as an example of having to process terabytes of data on a daily basis and the data mining software can help filter things out. The software may be useful but NASDAQ does not process terabytes per day of incoming data. I work in the market data industry and we take exchange feeds from around the world including NASDAQ and we don't process close to that much. OPRA (options) have the most data per day and that is only in the order of tens of GB range.

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