Re: DM: Datamining Definition.

Somebody posted the URL for an MSc in knowledge extraction from U East
Anglia the other day. The web site says, "extracting hidden knowledge from
larger data bases". Would this Msc in knowledge extraction be necessarily
different from an MSc in data mining?
FWP.

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Eric Bloedorn wrote:

 >
 > That seems quite an extraordinay generalization of the word "text"!
 > Furthermore data mining is not about extracting data. DM is concerned
 > with building descriptive and predictive models. A decision tree or
 > rule is not data.
 >
 > -Eric Bloedorn
 >
 > Franklin Wayne Poley wrote:
 > >
 > > Could datamining be fairly defined as "extracting data of value from
 > > text"? (With "text" broadly defined to include words, sentences, pictures,
 > > symbols etc?
 > > FWP.
 > >
 > > http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex/Machine-Psychology.htm

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