Data Mining
Data mining is the process of discovering potentially useful, interesting, and previously unknown patterns from a large collection of data. The process is similar to discovering ores burie...
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Data Mining
Data mining is the analysis of data for relationships that have not previously been discovered. For example, the sales records for a particular brand of fishing rod might, if sufficiently ...
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Transaction-Generated Information and Data Mining
The term transactional information was first employed by David Burnham (1983) to describe a new category of information produced by tracking and recor...
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The Homeland Security Department scrapped an ambitious anti-terrorism data-mining tool after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without required privacy safeguards...
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The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S...
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The Live Free or Die state is in the news again. Last year, New Hampshire became the first state in the nation to prohibit the sale of physician prescribing data for most commercial purposes. As we...
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we-almost-revealed-the-JT Leroy-hoax press release a few months back, The Nation's publicity director, Mike Webb, fired off a release this afternoon--in the wake of USA Today's exclusive NSA data-m...
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Pharmaceutical-company sales reps who visit doctors' offices to promote their products know a surprising amount about the physicians before they even walk through the door.Maybe too much, some lawm...
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Pharmaceutical-company sales reps who visit doctors' offices to promote their products know a surprising amount about the physicians before they even walk through the door.Maybe too much, some lawm...
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The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.Rec...
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A new Homeland Security program aims to analyze existing, legally collected computer data, not gather new personal information on U.S. citizens, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday in defending ...
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The Food and Drug Administration plans to revamp how it handles safety issues with the stents, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and other medical devices it regulates.
As it does so,...
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FBI demands to telecommunications companies went beyond requesting phone records of customers under suspicion to include analyses of their broader patterns of communication with others as well, new...
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Data Mining
Data Mining
Transaction-Generated Information and Data Mining
DHS ends criticized data-mining program
