Re: Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl

For starters, I would strongly recommend against calling your technique "data mining". Unless, of course, that's what it is, but it doesn't look like it to me. "Data mining" has a fairly specific meaning, which involves machine learning and very large datasets managed by powerful database systems.

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Re: Re: Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl by allolex (Curate) on Mar 06, 2003 at 07:15 UTC
Data mining also has a more general meaning of "sifting through a bunch of information (e.g. on the Internet) for useful data". The means of doing this are left up to the miner, although it usually requires the things you mentioned. -- Allolex	[reply]
Re3: Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 06, 2003 at 15:24 UTC
I agree with allolex. My wife has done some amazing data-mining for job-boards when I was searching for a job. (Of course, this was all done before she learned how to cut'n'paste, but she's a smart one! grins) ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement. Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 11, 2003 at 19:59 UTC
Obviously people use it that way, but it's still a bad idea to name your module that, for the simple reason that when someone goes searching CPAN for a data mining module, they won't want to find yours, because it doesn't do what they want it to. (`s/module/whatever/` as appropriate.) jdporter The 6th Rule of Perl Club is -- There is no Rule #6.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl by diotalevi (Canon) on Mar 06, 2003 at 15:38 UTC
Incidentally - are there any good references to getting into "Data Mining" in the sense that you used? Seeking Green geeks in Minnesota	[reply]


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