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Data Mining & Easter Eggs

Q: Why do they call it data mining? Isn’t it knowledge mining?

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Jan 30, 2018
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Q: Why do they call it data mining? Isn’t it knowledge mining?

A: No, it’s data mining. Knowledge is two steps up the added value chain. Once something becomes knowledge, you don’t really need data mining. So let’s first talk about the added value chain.

Data is less valuable than information. You can have bad data. It’s still data. You cleanse the data a…

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