Data-mining companies say they can judge our credit-worthiness based on that of our friends.
Without question, TIA represented a radical leap ahead in both data-mining technology and intelligence analysis.
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The effect is robust over time, economically significant, and unlikely to be caused by data-mining.
Around the office, data-mining experiments were given mysterious code names such as Narwhal and Dreamcatcher.
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The staggering, and fast-growing, information-crunching capabilities of data-mining technology broaden the definition of what is considered suspicious.
In June the Swedish Parliament voted into law a data-mining programme strongly backed by the defence ministry.
Consider, for example, an American startup-up company that has developed sophisticated new data-mining technologies for social networking applications.
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As business grows faster-paced and more complex, data-mining and analytics become increasingly valuable.
Companies that sell data-mining software, surveillance cameras and other products will flaunt their work with one government to attract new business.
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The effect is robust over time, economically significant, unlikely to be caused by data-mining, and not related to taking excess risk.
Jane is a perfect example of why Shirazi, who is 25 years old, is out touting his newly debuted data-mining startup Radius.
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The effect is robust over time, economically significant, unlikely to be caused by data-mining, and is not related to taking excessive risk.
Life insurance companies are going even further with their digital surveillance and data-mining, as pointed out recently by the Wall Street Journal.
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All seven economists insist that their results are not the product of data-mining crunching the numbers in search of any interesting pattern they can find.
The data-mining software is partly based on a model the SEC developed to trawl through hedge fund returns for signs of Bernard Madoff-style chicanery.
The experience of viewing The Social Network is akin to data-mining.
So does DoubleClick, a data-mining ad "network" that monitors behavior on 1, 400 Web sites and has more than 80 million user profiles in its database.
Data-mining should help identify, say, a stockbroking customer whose oldest child is turning 18, and who may therefore be disposed to consider an education loan.
According to IBM a typical oil or gas field generates so much data that engineers spend one-third to 60 percent of their time on data-mining.
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But the tradition of astronomical data-mining goes back a long way.
Technology offers insurance companies all kinds of cool new ways to assess our health before insuring us, from data-mining to active surveillance with cameras with great zoom.
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Katharina von Knop, a data-mining expert at the University of German Federal Armed Forces in Munich, says many systems remotely analyse the content of web pages people visit.
Furthermore, empathy experienced in a human relationship will always be different from the experience of being known by some data-mining organization, however accurate the information may be that is discerned.
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Semel has scientists looking at data-mining, user interfaces and the behavior of microeconomies, which might include things like scanning a million investment chat rooms to predict larger stock price trends.
Bankinter, a Spanish bank, developed data-mining techniques to such an extent that it has been able to set up a useful business as a private detective agency for suspicious spouses.
Suzanne Spaulding, a former legal adviser to the Senate and House intelligence committees, says improvements in data-mining technology have enabled intelligence agencies to milk favourable court rulings in ways that exceed judicial intent.
Forbes Insights partnered with Appinions, an innovative data-mining company that measures influence by extracting and aggregating opinions from over 5 million sources including blogs, social networks, forums, and newspaper and magazine articles.
But some data-mining is richer than others.
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The NYT points out that, if the suit continues to make its way through the court system, IMDb will be forced to reveal the tricks of its data-mining and exactly how it gathers information about the movie-magic-making people in its database.
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Instead of checking in to some wildly expensive spa for a few days of wired-up analysis by teams of kinesiology eggheads with space-age machines, how about doing a some deep data-mining using the soggy, smelly, salt-stained socks and shirt and shorts in your workout bag?
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