Data mining is a process that turns large volumes of raw data into actionable intelligence, and it's used by a wide variety ...

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 ...

With Google’s new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we’ll use it. With Google’s new Correlate system, ...

From a UC San Diego press release. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is kicking off its 2014 series of “Data Mining Boot Camps” aimed at helping ...

Social Media Mining is a process employed by businesses to analyze & extract patterns from social media data. It works on a reward model, and it rewards its users based on their activity, which ...

Solon Barocas is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Andrew Selbst is the Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance fellow at Public ...

Data mining – The hunt for hidden correlations that others do not see. Sounds great, what with all the data and computing power available. But, wait… Don’t all investors have access to those resources ...