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Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask: By Alexander Furnas. The Atlantic, April 3 2012. "A guide to what data mining is, how it works, and why it's important. Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists,' privacy advocates are concerned about personal data and control, and technologists and entrepreneurs scramble to find new ways to collect, control and monetize data. We know that data is powerful and valuable. But how? This article is an attempt to explain how data mining works and why you should care about it..."

Added: 11 April 2012; Page views: 327 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

Scraping, cleaning, and selling big data: Infochimps execs discuss the challenges of data scraping, by Audrey Watters. O'Reilly Radar, 11 May 2011. "In 2008, the Austin-based data startup Infochimps released a scrape of Twitter data that was later taken down at the request of the microblogging site because of user privacy concerns. Infochimps has since struck a deal with Twitter to make some datasets available on the site, and the Infochimps marketplace now contains more than 10,000 datasets from a variety of sources. Not all these datasets have been obtained via scraping, but nevertheless, the company's process of scraping, cleaning, and selling big data is an interesting topic to explore, both technically and legally. With that in mind, Infochimps CEO Nick Ducoff, CTO Flip Kromer, and business development manager Dick Hall explain the business of data scraping in the following interview..."

Added: 12 May 2011; Page views: 750 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

Data Mining And Predictive Analytics On Web Data Works? Nyet!: Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik, 11 September 2007. "... This in-depth post covers a complex topic that might not apply to everyone, but it covers an area where companies have struggled to try to show return on the investments made in skills, technology and time. The post promises clarity and guidance that hopefully will result in you saving tons of aggravation and yes even a nice chunk of change..."

Added: 12 September 2007; Page views: 1,558 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

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