Welcome to the laboratory for database and data mining at Simon Fraser university. In today's information society, we witness an explosive growth of the amount of information becoming available in ...

A few days ago, we highlighted the drastic privacy implications of new guidelines issued to govern data-mining by the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCTC”). Yesterday, we testified to Congress ...

1. Can existing data and infrastructure support the proposed data-mining tool? Some solutions will require a separate server for analysis, which could increase the expenditure by adding server ...

Is there gold in them there mountains of data? The average large enterprise has terabytes of data on hand — customer information, supplier exchanges, and internal company records that contain data.

Self-service data exploration by line-of-business analysts is an ideal that has been elusive in the world of big data. Whether hampered by issues with hardware or data-set tuning, business analysts ...

Text and Data Mining (TDM) is the practice of using technology to scan large amounts of data or text in order to identify themes, issues and correlations across different publications. This is ...

When it comes to health care and data mining, the two are now merging in a way that might cause some consumers to feel sick. A segment of the data mining industry is tapping everything from social ...