How to Use data mining in a Sentence

data mining

noun
  • Our lives are turned into a profit source through data mining.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
  • Maybe such meticulous data mining pays off—but maybe not.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Roper’s job is to bring new tools to the Air Force, and in this age that means data mining.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Regardless of your point of view, that type of data mining is not supposed to happen to our children.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • This could be due to data mining, or maybe the strategy does work, but enough people copy it to reduce its returns.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • These days, with the power of data mining on the Internet, sealing a record may not shut the books on one’s past.
    cleveland, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Do some data mining to look for pain points, such as in complaints about your business and your competitors’ businesses.
    David Malcolm, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • These days, tracking and data mining extends way beyond a single browser and a single device.
    David Nield, Wired, 2 Aug. 2020
  • And that’s how the data mining works and identifies those exposures that are likely causing these outbreaks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2021
  • One of the first things in social media data mining is to detect and separate racist, sexist or abusive posts from the other ones.
    Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The system described in the new patent would involve an even more sophisticated level of data mining.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 15 Nov. 2018
  • But that was all surface fluff compared to the real story about surveillance and data mining underneath.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 6 July 2018
  • Last year, data mining from medical records revealed two genes were connected to stuttering.
    Ignacio Amigo, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In Pseudoworld, lots of data mining is still available to companies and governments.
    Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Some people work hard to find ways around that, opting to pay for extra privacy or use alternatives focused on users, not data mining.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Organizations that persist in taking a hard pass on data mining are setting themselves up for problems.
    Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • If data mining isn’t its primary revenue stream, as Metropolis seems to insist, what is?
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • These standards are now free to access, with additional rights for all types of reuse, including full text and data mining, and analysis.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords demands that someone lead the fight against data mining, and for the protection of free speech online.
    Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 15 Nov. 2020
  • And other deep learning methods are far better than a DNC at logical data mining tasks.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2016
  • This is helpful because historic trends may just be data mining, hence having an underlying rationale can add weight to the theory.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The data mining found that ACE2 is also expressed in the nose’s olfactory cells.
    Sharon Begley, STAT, 26 June 2020
  • Another interesting area where algorithmic models have truly thrived is in the area of data mining and retrieval.
    Annie Brown, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Making school pages private means that data mining approaches similar to our own would be much more difficult – if not impossible – to carry out.
    Joshua Rosenberg, The Conversation, 16 July 2021
  • So, naturally, governments can carry out data mining on such platforms to get a clear idea of their citizens’ real-time problems and complaints.
    Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Experts suggest the new tool has been created to comply with standards on data mining in Europe’s new AI Act.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 9 May 2024
  • And the commission would not be allowed access to the sophisticated mapping technology and data mining tools.
    Colt Shaw, Philly.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • In other words, not only researchers but also advertisers and hackers could use data mining methods to access all of the posts by any school with a Facebook account.
    Joshua Rosenberg, The Conversation, 16 July 2021
  • Facebook, which admitted to being aware of the widespread data mining issue in 2015, banned the analytics firm from its website one day prior.
    Jason Murdock, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Welcome to the unnerving world of data mining, the fine art (some might say black art) of extracting important or sensitive pieces from the growing cloud of information that surrounds almost all of us.
    Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2010

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