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Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Pages: 105-111
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319576688
Full citation:
, "Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa", in: Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017
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Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa
pp. 105-111
in: Nimrod Bar Am, Stefano Gattei (eds), Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
Data-mining (and machine learning) algorithms try to find interesting valid patterns in data. As such they perform a task similar to a scientist who searches for a theory that explains the data.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Pages: 105-111
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319576688
Full citation:
, "Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa", in: Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017