----- Forwarded message from Debasmit Mohanty -----
I think, now is the time when we have to decide "Do we accept DATA MINING as
a part of statistics or do we keep neglecting this field as before".
I am sure there would be few statistics students like me who feel that Data
Mining is very much the part of statistics.
----- End of forwarded message from Debasmit Mohanty -----
It may be a disagreement over words. Much of the work Tukey et
al. did in the 60s, called exploratory data analysis, had to do with
looking at data and trying to detect patterns. However, if you sift
through data you will find many "patterns" that are just flukes of
chance. How do you avoid taking these seriously? This was a
criticism directed at Tukey then, and even more so at what goes on
today under the name of "Data Mining". But I have a sense that Tukey
had a much deeper awareness of the underlying statitical issues than
most of the miners have!-)
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