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Data mining

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Audio Mining

Occasionally referred to as audio indexing, audio mining is a computerized task involving the processing of an audio file, extracting the dialog and creating a textual transcript, and searching the transcript for certain words or phrases. Considering the amount of audio content on the Internet and other sources, it is clear that audio mining is a growing technology. To get an idea of what audio...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/nsdl/met/2002/1220
Data Mining

Data Mining, also known as Knowledge Discovery in Databases, is a process used to extract implicit, previously unknown, but potentially useful information from raw data. This first website (1) provides a basic overview of Data Mining and some applications for the process. Common applications of data mining include fraud detection and marketing, but data mining has also been applied in...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/nsdl/met/2005/0506
Machine Learning for Data Streams

Published in 2018 and now available as an open-access text, Machine Learning for Data Streams is a great guide for "data stream mining and real-time analytics." The book is authored by a group of computer science experts, Albert Bifet (Telecom Paris Tech, France), Ricard Gavalda (Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona), Geoff Holmes (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand) and Bernhard...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262037792/
Robots Reading Vogue

Robots Reading Vogue explores the digital humanities (DH) possibilities presented using data from Vogue magazine. Vogue creates a DH bonanza, as it has been "continuously published for over a century," and is "completely digitized," resulting in some six terabytes of data and thousands of covers and images. Several experiments are showcased on the website, including the Diana Vreeland Memo...

http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/
The Promise and Peril of Big Data [pdf]

Some data-crunchers and others are thrilled by the prospect of the growing amount of "big data". According to a recent report, the amount of digital content available on the Internet is approaching five hundred billion gigabytes. This 66-page report from the Aspen Institute asks some key questions about these developments, including "Does Big Data represent an evolution of knowledge, or is more...

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/promise-peril-bi...
Web Robots and Web Mining

Manually indexing the World Wide Web is obviously an impossible task, and it is even a daunting challenge for automated techniques. Web content mining is a general term used to describe these techniques, which are intended for information categorization and filtering. Web robots serve a variety of purposes, including indexing; and they can be useful or, in some cases, harmful. Web usage mining, on...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/nsdl/met/2003/0328