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FeaturesFrom: Gregory Piatetsky-ShapiroDate: 6 Jun 2005 Subject: Data Mining Haiku Here are submitted entries for KDnuggets Data Mining Haiku competition. Unlike Data Mining Limericks, which were judged by "objective" quality rules, Data Mining Haiku selection was completely subjective, and was not necessarily based on poetic quality, sense of humor or the importance of the invoked data mining concept. The winning haiku, however, illustrates an important point about ease of finding spurious correlations (that ease is sometimes known as Bonferroni's curse, reminding us about Bonferroni's correction that can be used to fight the curse). 1st place
Curse Bonferroni
(Nigel Clay, Australia) 2nd Place
The data complex
(Karl Brazier, UK) 3nd Place
Certainty begets
(Nigel Clay, Australia) Honorary Mentions
The model is built
(Adam Lynton, Australia)
Knowledge and meaning.
(David Turkington, USA)
I only mine data
(Andrei Turinsky, Canada) Note The high poetic level to which data miners can aspire is the winning haiku from Salon magazine haiku contest on the topic of computer error messages. The winning haiku, written by David Dixon, was:
Three things are certain:
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