Martin Theus
What Dataminers Want
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Datamining is obviously a "buzzword", which does not really describe
an academic discipline, but more a field of application of the established
disciplines statistics and computer sciences. Both disciplines do not
really cover what dataminers need and lack a certain part.
This paper tries to illustrate what the traditional disciplines miss and
why new pseudo disciplines like Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
arise.
Several aspects of statistical computing like data management and graphical
interrogations are investigated in the light of the daily business of a
dataminer. Finally the question comes up, whether research in statistical
computing focuses on these topics, which might influence commercial
software development into the right direction.