Bonus Videos

In the first lecture, we heard numbers in Tera, Peta and Exabytes .... but what does it take to store and manage such Big Data?

Have a look at how the data giant  facebook  does it ..

Here is also another video to watch during the holidays: A documentary about the use of data mining by the police, scientists and in the stock market: Horizon BBC: The Age of Big Data. Don't miss it!

Enjoy...

Big Data Infographic

Here is the infographic we have seen together last lecture:
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Welcome!

Assalamu Alaikum All, and welcome to this course on Data Mining!

Did you know that the amount of data we have produced as humans in the previous few years surpasses the amount of data produced in all of human history?

What can we make out of all of this data?

This will be our principle question in this course. We will try to find patterns, associations and meaning in large datasets and see how to make decisions based on them.

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For now ... whet your appetite by watching the following video:

What has Data Mining to do with the Obama campaign?