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Subject: ZDnet on Data mining: Digging user info for gold
February 8, 2001, ZDnet looks at the data mining industry.

The article examines the progress and shortcomings of data mining.
Companies mentioned include Amazon, Aberdeen Group, Oracle,
IBM, Emerald Solutions, Microsoft, Digimine, MSNBC,
Data Mining Technologies, SAS, Ephiphany.

It compares the opinion of Ephipany's George John who thinks that
simplifying data mining is good for the business users, vs. Usama
Fayyad (Digimine), who warns that excessive simplification can skew
results and to faulty reasoning.

See the article at
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2683567,00.html


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