"What we should be talking about is piecemeal movement in the direction of things that make for a better life". Another strategy is to track trends that can affect a community's well-being by mining existing statistics from censuses, surveys and government agencies that track health, the environment, the economy and other societal barometers.
Data mining existing records offers unprecedented opportunities to find and detect terrorism plots before they happen.
Other companies also hope to mine existing resources to learn more about the biology of diseases and how to treat them.
This shift means product teams have to evolve from just mining existing customers and expand the relevance of wins and losses, as those lost customers represent a gold mine of prioritization analysis.
And the fact that you can use it as a client to update sites like Twitter gives it currency beyond just using it as a way mine existing data; it becomes a data generator in its own right.
However, it does so in the context of evolutionary biology and population genetics (Clark et al. 2007; Zhao et al. 2007), providing an open-ended opportunity to mine existing breeding populations and germplasm collections for valuable alleles that have not been previously captured in plant breeding programs (Tanksley and McCouch 1997).
Zin.gl instead aims for quality, not quantity, having developed a way to mine existing social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Foursquare for valuable 'dating information', and then feeding that wealth of data into its 'social matching' systems, all in an effort to connect singles with others when they have common interests, live nearby, and so on.
Too often, government lacks the resources and ability to mine existing data for insights.
The bureau crafted a plan that it estimates will save $5 billion through new counting methods that include using smartphones, gathering internet and phone responses, and mining existing government records to fill out its tabulations.
