mining

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A government report on the effectiveness of data mining that, in hindsight and all that, should have been done before just taking data and preventing oversight or recompense, has been released saying the government's method of data mining is an invasion of privacy and is likely to produce lots of false positives.

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  1. noun The process or business of extracting ore or minerals from the ground.
  2. noun The process of digging under an enemy emplacement or fortification to destroy it by explosives, cause it to collapse, or gain access to it for an attack.
  3. noun The process of laying explosive mines.

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  • Data mining is an emerging research area, whose goal is to extract significant patterns or interesting rules from large databases. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Industry (19\% of GDP): Type -- mining, agricultural processing plants, brewing and bottling, light industry.
  • Even though the company issued a press release stating they would go in production this month, Latin American mining and commodity expert Otto Rock of Inca Kola News says that "full commission date is likely to be 'never'". —  The NarcoSphere -
  • You've worked a long time in Chile and it's known as a mining, foreign-investment friendly place.
  • Now it is time to put a halt to it because the mining is almost near enough to harm the ancient forest.
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  1. Verbal noun of mine, v.
  2. Ppr. of mine, v.
 

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