Assignment 0: Data Mining in the News

Use two different search engines and find two different recent stories involving data mining. Describe the role of "data mining" in the story using your own words.

Here is an example. Searching Google News for data mining on August 9, 2004 gives us

IBM, Mayo Clinic Take Next Data Mining Step
DB2-based system contains records on 4.4M patients

This story describes how Mayo clinic uses IBM tools to analyze the data on its patients in order to develop indivudualized care.
... a doctor treating a patient for cancer could use data mining to find the results treatments given to the similar patients and use this information to find the best treatment course for new patient.