Data mining
Process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets
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| April 1 2020 | Switzerland introduced Article 24d of the Swiss Copyright Act, regulating data mining and allowing it in the research field under specific conditions. |
| 2017 | Experienced a major customer data breach that exposed sensitive personal information of a large number of individuals, which became one of the most significant cybersecurity incidents in corporate history. |
| March 2017 | A data breach of Equifax Workforce Solutions was confirmed, involving the theft of individuals' tax records from April 2016 to March 2017. |
| April 2016 | Equifax Workforce Solutions data breach begins, with unauthorized access to individuals' tax records initiated. |
| 2015 |
Data dredging
Journalist John Bohannon conducted a fraudulent chocolate weight loss study as a social experiment to demonstrate data dredging, which was widely reported in media outlets and believed by many people.
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| 2014 | The UK government amended its copyright law to allow content mining as a limitation and exception, becoming the second country in the world to do so after Japan. |
| 2014 | Fourth poll conducted about data mining methodologies, demonstrating CRISP-DM's continued dominance in the industry. |
| 2014 | Final poll in the series reaffirmed CRISP-DM as the leading methodology, with usage significantly higher than alternative approaches like SEMMA. |
| 2014 |
Data dredging
The term 'p-hacking' was coined in a paper by the researchers behind the Data Colada blog, highlighting the problem of manipulative data analysis techniques in social sciences research.
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| May 2013 | The European Commission hosted the 'Licences for Europe' stakeholder discussion on text and data mining. Representatives from universities, researchers, libraries, civil society groups, and open access publishers withdrew from the dialogue due to disagreements over licensing approaches. |
| October 2012 | Equifax rebranded the TALX business unit, changing its name to Equifax Workforce Solutions. |
| 2011 | Walgreens patrons filed a lawsuit against the company for selling prescription information to data mining companies, which then provided the data to pharmaceutical companies, highlighting significant privacy concerns in data mining practices. |
| 2011 | Walgreens patrons file a lawsuit against the company for selling prescription information to data mining companies, highlighting significant privacy violation concerns. |
| April 2010 | The New York Times published an investigative article criticizing TALX for systematically contesting unemployment benefits claims, potentially denying benefits to unemployed individuals to reduce costs for their employer clients. |
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