data mining
noun
: the practice of searching through large amounts of computerized data to find useful patterns or trends
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Emotions will never be fully understood through complex data mining.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Age: 57 | Source of wealth: Software firm Karp is cofounder and CEO of data mining firm Palantir Technologies, a defense contractor that does work for government agencies such as the Department of Defense and the FBI.
—John Hyatt, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
And in October 2015, as CMS department chiefs were batting around ideas to crack down on billing abuses, including reinstating the 2014 regulation on data mining, the agency was led by Andy Slavitt, a former executive vice president of the Optum division of UnitedHealth Group.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
However, given the potential power of data mining and machine learning models, this is not an impossible task.
—Karen Firestone, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Age: 57 | Source of wealth: Software firm Karp is cofounder and CEO of data mining firm Palantir Technologies, a defense contractor that does work for government agencies such as the Department of Defense and the FBI.
—John Hyatt, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
And in October 2015, as CMS department chiefs were batting around ideas to crack down on billing abuses, including reinstating the 2014 regulation on data mining, the agency was led by Andy Slavitt, a former executive vice president of the Optum division of UnitedHealth Group.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
However, given the potential power of data mining and machine learning models, this is not an impossible task.
—Karen Firestone, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Data mining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data%20mining. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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