How to Use data mining in a Sentence

data mining

noun
  • Roper’s job is to bring new tools to the Air Force, and in this age that means data mining.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
  • These days, with the power of data mining on the Internet, sealing a record may not shut the books on one’s past.
    cleveland, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Our lives are turned into a profit source through data mining.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
  • Regardless of your point of view, that type of data mining is not supposed to happen to our children.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The move follows growing caution amongst users in the U.S. about data mining and privacy concerns from the apps.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Sep. 2020
  • This could be due to data mining, or maybe the strategy does work, but enough people copy it to reduce its returns.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • From my perspective, data mining your own stats is key.
    Judy Herbst, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The data mining found that ACE2 is also expressed in the nose’s olfactory cells.
    Sharon Begley, STAT, 26 June 2020
  • One of the first things in social media data mining is to detect and separate racist, sexist or abusive posts from the other ones.
    Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords demands that someone lead the fight against data mining, and for the protection of free speech online.
    Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 15 Nov. 2020
  • And that’s how the data mining works and identifies those exposures that are likely causing these outbreaks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The effort sparked concerns over data mining and privacy.
    Molly Sauter, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2018
  • And other deep learning methods are far better than a DNC at logical data mining tasks.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2016
  • The system described in the new patent would involve an even more sophisticated level of data mining.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 15 Nov. 2018
  • In Pseudoworld, lots of data mining is still available to companies and governments.
    Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2020
  • These days, tracking and data mining extends way beyond a single browser and a single device.
    David Nield, Wired, 2 Aug. 2020
  • But how does data mining resolve the corruption problem?
    Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • But that was all surface fluff compared to the real story about surveillance and data mining underneath.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 6 July 2018
  • In other cases, the data mining is more labor intensive.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • Some people work hard to find ways around that, opting to pay for extra privacy or use alternatives focused on users, not data mining.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Facebook, which admitted to being aware of the widespread data mining issue in 2015, banned the analytics firm from its website one day prior.
    Jason Murdock, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • These standards are now free to access, with additional rights for all types of reuse, including full text and data mining, and analysis.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2020
  • In other words, not only researchers but also advertisers and hackers could use data mining methods to access all of the posts by any school with a Facebook account.
    Joshua Rosenberg, The Conversation, 16 July 2021
  • Basically: Westworld is the data mining goldmine that corporate dreams are made of.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
  • If data mining isn’t its primary revenue stream, as Metropolis seems to insist, what is?
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Welcome to the unnerving world of data mining, the fine art (some might say black art) of extracting important or sensitive pieces from the growing cloud of information that surrounds almost all of us.
    Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2010
  • The 2002 novel presciently tackled ideas of consumerism run amok, data mining and American decay.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Much of the furor surrounding the data mining revelations has focused on Cambridge Analytica's ties to the Trump campaign.
    Kevin Diaz, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Last year, data mining from medical records revealed two genes were connected to stuttering.
    Ignacio Amigo, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This is helpful because historic trends may just be data mining, hence having an underlying rationale can add weight to the theory.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021

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