data miner
Information pattern finder
A data miner is someone who extracts useful patterns and insights from large datasets, or software that performs this function.
The term can be neutral—describing analysts who find valuable trends in business or scientific data—or pejorative, suggesting invasive collection of personal information: Social media companies are notorious data miners.
Systematic grouping by traits
- clusteringForming concentrated groups
- regressionReturn to former state
- decision treeBranching predictive model
- web scrapingAutomated site data extraction
Database manipulation language
- PythonLarge nonvenomous squeezer
- REighteenth alphabet symbol
- HadoopOpen-source cluster framework
- tableauStriking pictorial arrangement
ETL · database · dashboard · spreadsheet · SAS · SPSS · Excel · pandas
One who examines systematically
- researcherOne who studies systematically
- scientistOne who studies nature
- statisticianProfessional interpreter of numbers
- specialistExpert in one field
consultant · engineer · practitioner · professional · expert · team · business intelligence · modeler
Identifying regularities in inputs
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- trendDirection of change
- outlierDistant data point
- correlationStatistical relationship measure
signal · hidden knowledge · prediction · forecast · segmentation · profiling · fraud detection · recommendation
Act of removing
- transformationThorough change in form
- loadingAdding weight or cargo
- preprocessingInitial data preparation steps
- cleaningRemoving dirt and mess
wrangling · integration · validation · sampling · aggregation · normalization · enrichment · pipeline
classification
Systematic grouping by traits
- clusteringForming concentrated groups
- regressionReturn to former state
- decision treeBranching predictive model
SQL
Database manipulation language
tableau · ETL · database · dashboard · spreadsheet · SAS · SPSS · Excel · pandas · TensorFlow
analyst
One who examines systematically
- researcherOne who studies systematically
- scientistOne who studies nature
- statisticianProfessional interpreter of numbers
specialist · consultant · engineer · practitioner · professional · expert · team · business intelligence · modeler · detective
pattern recognition
Identifying regularities in inputs
correlation · signal · hidden knowledge · prediction · forecast · segmentation · profiling · fraud detection · recommendation · risk assessment
extraction
Act of removing
- transformationThorough change in form
- loadingAdding weight or cargo
- preprocessingInitial data preparation steps
cleaning · wrangling · integration · validation · sampling · aggregation · normalization · enrichment · pipeline · workflow
- investigatorsdetective, investigator, inspector, sleuth, gumshoe
- analystsfinancial analyst, business analyst, stock analyst, credit analyst, policy analyst
- botsbot, bots, chatbot, chatbots, spam bot
- malwarevirus, viruses, worm, worms, trojan horse
data minerprivacy advocate
Person championing personal data protection
data minerprivate
Restricted to certain parties
personal · secure · confidential · anonymous · confidential source
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