Data mining

Data mining is an interesting kind of thing. There is an equation for everything happen in the world. Data Mining is finding those equations. This is interesting kind of science. My lab called it pseudo science. Data Mining is kind of mixture of everything, most of the parts are maths then statistics then artificial intelligence and so. Dr. Gruenwald thinks it is a magic word to her students. Whatever it is, it is a good fun.

To me data mining is revealing the underlying truth from a phenomenon, the underneath truth hidden from rest of the world. The best part of the data mining is nobody knows the correct answer. In fact this is true for all kind of science. There is nothing called truth in science. Science is all about guessing, there is nothing called truth.

Most of my work is data mining related. If anybody ask me “why data mining?”, I use to answer because it is easy. Another thing in data mining is: we enjoy the liberty of doing whatever we like to do. Real life is wild enough. We always can find something that fits our model well. Once again, all models are wrong but some are useful. Our job is to find a good model that fits with real world. There is no end of improvement in this domain. As a security researcher my job is to build a model that can find the intruders. Fun and fancy! Isn’t it?