Data mining - Topics

Mining behavioral data crossed a line somewhere: where does knowledge extraction become surveillance CRISP-DM is thirty years old and still the process every data mining project claims to follow The DIKW pyramid from data to wisdom looks tidy and falls apart the moment you question each arrow Text mining is not data mining with different punctuation: what changes when the object is language Association rules made grocery stores smarter and fraud detection possible: the underrated workhorse Spurious correlations at scale: when mining finds patterns faster than reality produces them The beer and diapers story is a myth that still sells every association rules lecture Is the data-information-knowledge hierarchy real or just a consulting slide that stuck Link prediction on a knowledge graph: completing the map before the facts arrive FP-growth versus Apriori on a million transactions Decision support systems promised augmented judgment: where did that lineage actually land What does lift add that confidence alone hides? Interestingness measures beyond support and confidence Negative association rules: purchases that predict avoidance Non-monotonic reasoning: why "birds fly except penguins" was brutally hard for pure logic Setting minimum support without drowning in trivial rules Apriori candidate generation and why it explodes on wide baskets Pruning redundant rules that cover the same itemset