Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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Classical science is also "data mining", though. Do a bunch of experiments, gather tons of data, start trying to figure out patters and trends. Andy's meteorology is a prime example, they have way too much data to analyze any other way.
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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Why are you taking data mining? Will you work in advertisement?
Classical science is also "data mining", though. Do a bunch of experiments, gather tons of data, start trying to figure out patters and trends. Andy's meteorology is a prime example, they have way too much data to analyze any other way.
Martin said it. Also, I'm pretty sure they use it in finance to spot market trends. It's useful stuff I suppose, not only in advertising.
 

Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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Martin said it. Also, I'm pretty sure they use it in finance to spot market trends. It's useful stuff I suppose, not only in advertising.
It sounds esoteric, but that's not because it's a new problem, it's just because now with computers we actually can collect data on a massive scale and then process it. That's what makes data mining seem novel. You know the old detective series where the cops were looking for a bad guy and they would rummage through the whole archive, looking for clues that tied people or events together? That's primitive data mining right there.
 

.zero

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Advertising agencies use data mining to target customers, that's basically my conception of the purpose of data mining.
i see what you are saying and i do agree. but i guess there are subtle differences in terms of data mining and the statistical discipline of advertising and the number crunching of sciences.

samples and population and trends in advertising based on statistics seems very similar to the same application in sciences such as meteorology
 

.zero

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quick lunch, i have alot of testing to do and meetings from 1-2 and then from 2-3

i'm prolly gonna miss out on the ass beating we're gonna get today
 

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