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Why Is Data Mining Still A Frontier?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let's-get-together dept.

bbsguru writes "How much do we know that we still don't know? A story in The Register points out that little has changed since Francis Bacon proposed combining knowledge to learn new things 400 years ago, despite all the computer power we now have. Scientific (and other) data is still housed in unrelated collections, waiting for some enterprising Relational Database Programmer to unlock the keys to understanding. Is RDBMS still a Brave New Frontier, or will Google make the art obsolete once they finish indexing everything?"

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  1. Don't worry... by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm on it.

  2. Re:Give up by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, there are a few out there besides my own. I googled for "porn database" and my stuff is only ranked like #20 and higher...

    Of course the others are just half-assed tagging schemes.