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Do you have odd and unexpected applications of Big Data? Please comment or email


For a story, I am looking for odd and unexpected applications of Big Data.

Please comment or email to editor1@kdnuggets.com .

The recent KDnuggets Poll: Where did you apply Analytics/Data Mining? identified most common application areas - see below, so uncommon is not a typical application like product/movie recommendation, churn prediction or fraud detection.

Top 25 analytics/data mining application areas in 2012

  1. CRM/Consumer analytics
  2. Health care/ HR
  3. Retail
  4. Banking
  5. Education
  6. Advertising
  7. Fraud Detection
  8. Social Media / Social Networks
  9. Science
  10. Finance
  11. Direct Marketing/ Fundraising
  12. Search / Web content mining
  13. Biotech/Genomics
  14. Insurance
  15. Credit Scoring
  16. Manufacturing
  17. Medical/ Pharma
  18. Telecom / Cable
  19. Web usage mining
  20. Software
  21. Ecommerce
  22. Government/Military
  23. Entertainment/ Music/ TV/Movies
  24. Investment / Stocks
  25. Security / Anti-terrorism


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