{"id":3686,"date":"2012-04-04T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2012-04-04T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:42:16","slug":"everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With data mining it is possible to let the data itself determine the groups. This is one of the black-box type of algorithms that are hard to understand. But in a simple example &#8211; again with purchasing behavior &#8211; we can imagine that the purchasing habits of different hobbyists would look quite different from each other: gardeners, fishermen and model airplane enthusiasts would all be quite distinct. Machine learning algorithms can detect all of the different subgroups within a dataset that differ significantly from each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/04\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask\/255388\/\">Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask &#8211; Alexander Furnas &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With data mining it is possible to let the data itself determine the groups. This is one of the black-box type of algorithms that are hard to understand. But in a simple example &#8211; again with purchasing behavior &#8211; we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[475,553,170],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-big-data","tag-data-mining","tag-data-modeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}