"What are they trying to hide?" Patterned after a similar proposal in California that was rejected last year, Initiative 522 was put on the ballot after supporters gathered about 350,000 signatures this year.
Other studies use aggregate data, which may hide patterns at the micro level.
It is a solemn version of the joke that James Thurber played so well, decades ago, in "The Macbeth Murder Mystery," in which a hidden pattern involving obscure rustics is found within the play.
But after digging a bit deeper, I discovered a common, poorly hidden pattern of government computers making edits to Wikipedia pages in order to completely remove controversial sections from various entries about politicians.
Both the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project and the ARDA research project seek to detect hidden patterns of activity in vast collections of digital data.
Information has to be arranged in some sort of sequence, tiny touches of humor or drama or pathos added, unnecessary details subtracted, hidden patterns emphasized.
The soft computing based systems are capable of extracting relevant information from large sets of data by discovering hidden patterns in the data.
With an increasing volume of available data, conventional machine learning algorithms may fail to capture hidden patterns behind the reliability engineering problems due to the curse of dimensionality.
Clinical data mining has great potential for mining hidden patterns in the medical datasets, which can then be used to guide clinical decision making and personalized medicine.
STEVEN STROGATZ: One of the things about math that I love the most is its really uncanny ability to reveal patterns hidden patterns in our everyday lives, in nature, in the world around us.
