TT: Data Mining

TT: Data Mining

Data mining searches large databases for unexpected patterns of data- and its used by everyone from Amazon to political campaigns to government and law resources. But some say the technology crosses the lines of public versus private...

Data mining searches large databases for unexpected patterns of data- and its used by everyone from Amazon to political campaigns to government and law resources. But some say the technology crosses the lines of public versus private information.

Guests

Usama Fayyad

Founder and president, DMX Group, a business and technology consulting group

Lee Strickland

Visiting Professor and Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland, College Park

Nick Gillespie

Editor-in-Chief, Reason magazine

Angelique Waller

artist, author "Data Mining the Amazon"

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