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What is data mining?

Analysing large quantities of data into useful information to:

  • Find patterns / trends / anomalies in data

  • Find information not obvious to the user

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Who uses datamining?

  • Supermarkets

  • Police

  • Health

  • Social Media

  • Financial organisations

  • Many more…

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Why is data mining useful / advantages

  • Can identify ways to save money

  • Can help focus marketing

  • Can identify health trends

  • Can identify groups of people likely to default on debt

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Drawbacks of data mining

  • Expensive – it needs large computers and skilled programmers and mathematicians

  • Results can be difficult to interpret

  • Can be difficult to anonymise

  • Can feel creepy when marketing is targeted

  • Biased data can produce biased results (e.g. sentencing or mortgage applications)

  • You can get spurious (false) correlations - these will just randomly arise with large enough data sets

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What is aggregating data?

Process where raw data is gathered and expressed in a summary form for statistical analysis

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