Data Mining
With the increased and widespread use of technologies, interest in data mining has increased rapidly. Companies are now utilized data mining techniques to exam their database looking for trends, relationships, and outcomes to enhance their overall operations and discover new patterns that may allow them to better serve their customers. Data mining provides numerous benefits to businesses, government, society as well as individual persons. However, like many technologies, there are negative things that caused by data mining such as invasion of privacy right. This paper tries to explore the advantages as well as the disadvantages of data mining. In addition, the ethical and global issues regarding the use of data mining will also be discussed. Finally, an ethical analysis about data mining is provided.
WHAT IS DATA MINING?
For many years, statistics have been used to analyze data in an effort to find correlations, patterns, and dependencies. However, with an increased in technology more and more data are available, which greatly exceed the human capacity to manually analyze them. Before the 1990?s, data collected by bankers, credit card companies, department stores and so on have little used. But in recent years, as computational power increases, the idea of data mining has emerged. Data mining is a term used to describe the ?process of discovering patterns and trends in large data sets in order to find useful decision-making information.?1 With data mining, the information obtained from the bankers, credit card companies, and department stores can be put to good use.
HOW DATA MINING WORKS
Data mining is a component of a wider process called ?knowledge discovery from database?2. It involv...
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