A guide to what data mining is, how it works, and why it's important. Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists,' privacy advocates ...

With Google’s new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we’ll use it. With Google’s new Correlate system, ...

From a UC San Diego press release. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is kicking off its 2014 series of “Data Mining Boot Camps” aimed at helping ...

Social Media Mining is a process employed by businesses to analyze & extract patterns from social media data. It works on a reward model, and it rewards its users based on their activity, which ...

Data mining isn’t just techno-speak for messing around with a lot of data. Data mining doesn’t give you supernatural powers, either. Data mining is a specific way to use specific kinds of math. It’s ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Data Science. This course is available on the MPA in Data Science for Public Policy, MRes in Management (Marketing), MSc in Applied Social Data Science, MSc in ...

Solon Barocas is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Andrew Selbst is the Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance fellow at Public ...

Facebook is under intense pressure after it admitted that Cambridge Analytica, a political data-mining firm, got access to massive amount of user data. A look at why Facebook allows third parties ...