in reply to 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.

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      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*)

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      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.)

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Re: Re: Bottom-Up Data Mining with Perl
by diotalevi (Canon) on Mar 06, 2003 at 15:38 UTC
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