data miners
Information diggers online
Data miners are people or software that extract patterns and insights from large datasets.
The term covers legitimate analysts uncovering business intelligence as well as those who harvest personal information from websites or databases, often without consent: Data miners scraped social media profiles to build advertising profiles.
The practice sits at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and privacy concerns.
- statisticQuantified observation from data
- analyticsSystematic examination of datasets
- patternsRecurring arrangements or designs
- detailsSpecific pieces of information
- numbersCounting and calculation symbols
number crunching · clustering · regression · classification · decision trees · Hadoop · neural networks · statistical analysis · pattern recognition · algorithmic bias · fraud detection · business intelligence · bioinformatics · database management · mathematical modeling · web scraping · machine learning · stats
- botsbot, bots, chatbot, chatbots, spam bot
- cyber sleuthshackers, fraud investigators
- power playerspower brokers, insiders, dealmakers, influencers, kingmakers
- trendspotterscool hunters, futurists, tastemakers