not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the world s electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don t they know? i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i think there is a sense that computers can do far moor than they actually can. the biggest challenge isn t collecting and storing the information. it is making sense of it all. i picked a selection of terms that a national security person might be interested in. radio active or nuclear power or bridges or stations or airports. here is the tricky part. if we miss stuff we don t know it. that is really bad. on the other hand if you turn up lots and lots of things that you say might be threats an
not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the world s electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don t they know? i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i think there is a sense that computers can do far moor than they actually can. the biggest challenge isn t collecting and storing the information. it is making sense of it all. i picked a selection of terms that a national security person might be interested in. radio active or nuclear power or bridges or stations or airports. here is the tricky part. if we miss stuff we don t know it. that is really bad. on the other hand if you turn up lots and lots of things that you say might be threats an
not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the world s electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don t they know? i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i think there is a sense that computers can do far moor than they actually can. the biggest challenge isn t collecting and storing the information. it is making sense of it all. i picked a selection of terms that a national security person might be interested in. radio active or nuclear power or bridges or stations or airports. here is the tricky part. if we miss stuff we don t know it. that is really bad. on the other hand if you turn up lots and lots of things that you say might be threats an
not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the world s electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don t they know? i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i think there is a sense that computers can do far moor than they actually can. the biggest challenge isn t collecting and storing the information. it is making sense of it all. i picked a selection of terms that a national security person might be interested in. radio active or nuclear power or bridges or stations or airports. here is the tricky part. if we miss stuff we don t know it. that is really bad. on the other hand if you turn up lots and lots of things that you say might be threats an
not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the world s electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don t they know? i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i think there is a sense that computers can do far moor than they actually can. the biggest challenge isn t collecting and storing the information. it is making sense of it all. i picked a selection of terms that a national security person might be interested in. radio active or nuclear power or bridges or stations or airports. here is the tricky part. if we miss stuff we don t know it. that is really bad. on the other hand if you turn up lots and lots of things that you say might be threats an