My research on data mining

What is data mining?

Data mining is a field where three worlds get combined i.e.

• Database
• Artificial Intelligence
• Statistics

à It is also called as knowledge discovery.

Where we use this?

Data mining techniques are used in business and research and are becoming more and more popular with time

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Why, How, and When 

Data mining is under attack from privacy advocates because of a misunderstanding about what it actually is and valid concern about how it’s generally done.

The problems :

• In 2002, concerns over government collection of data led to street protests in Japan.
• In 2003, concern over the US Total Information Awareness program even led to the introduction of a bill in the US Senate that would have stopped any US Department of Defense data-mining program.

Such kneejerk reactions don’t just ignore the benefits of data mining—they display a lack of understanding of its goals