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Government report: Data mining doesn't work well

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10059987-38.html

by martinsz • 18 years ago

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ntoshev• 18 years ago

I don't think there are enough cases of terrorism to be able to apply data mining to this problem. There just isn't enough statistics and every case is different.

musiciangames• 18 years ago

I was at Oracle at the peak of the data warehouse/data mining hype cycle. Every presentation cited the correlation found between sales of beer and nappies (diapers). The only problem is, it probably never happened.

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html

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