18 Mar
20:00
Studium Generale | Lecture

Data Mining

More than 2.5 million terabytes of Big Data are created every day – collected from everywhere about everything and about everyone. 

Facebook, Twitter, Google, research labs, educational institutes, government institutions, healthcare and journalism: technological developments mean that data is stored everywhere. 

An informative poster about datamining

All this data can give us new insights, helping us to analyse the world around us and find solutions to seemingly insoluble problems. The question is: who is looking for what and how? How can we extract insights and useful information from the mountains of data? What pitfalls can we expect when interpreting results? What fields of applications are available for data mining? Who decides what happens with the information? And what about privacy?

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