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Permalink Reply by Vincent Granville on May 3, 2013 at 10:55am

Data mining is already about automating lot's of insight discovery processes. Automating data mining is automating automation. But who would automate data mining? Data miners? And who would automate the automation of data mining? Or the automation of automaton of automation of data mining?

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Permalink Reply by Jozo Kovac on May 5, 2013 at 2:31am

Nice one :)

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Permalink Reply by Richard Boire on May 8, 2013 at 11:20am

Data Mining is not about automation but about a  4 step process which requires extensive and specialized knowledge by the practitioner. This 4 step process is:

1)Identification  of the Business Problem

2)Creation of the Analytical File

3)Applying the Right Tools to develop the Solution

4)Deploying the Solution and the Framework for Measurement

 

Obviously as the data mining discipline has evolved, increasing automation has simply provided better tools for more empowerment by data miners. But if anything, the ability to do more and better solutions has simply increased the need for practitioners or  human intervention. Companies that de-emphasize the role of human intervention in the data mining process do so at their own peril.  

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Permalink Reply by Sandro Saitta on May 14, 2013 at 5:02am

Thanks to all of you for your input, very interesting!

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