• DocumentCode
    1386559
  • Title

    Searching for the mother lode: tales of the first data miners

  • Author

    Hedberg, Sara Reese

  • Author_Institution
    Issaquash, WA, USA
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    10/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    What do NEA coaches, foster children, and astronomers have in common? The answer: data mining. In the past year, KDD (knowledge discovery and data mining) has taken center stage in advanced technology groups around the world. The first generation of KDD applications are seeing the light of day. The author interviewed data miners from the foster care system in the state of Washington, assistant coaches in the US National Basketball Association, investigators with the US Department of the Treasury, consultants at NCR, and the principal astronomer of the largest sky survey ever undertaken
  • Keywords
    query processing; very large databases; KDD; NCR; National Basketball Association; US Department of the Treasury; data miners; data mining; foster care; principal astronomer; Art; Data analysis; Data mining; Data warehouses; Databases; Gold; Pediatrics; Space technology; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IEEE Expert
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-9000
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/64.539006
  • Filename
    539006