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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:

Abraham Meidan, "Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa", in: Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa

Abraham Meidan

pp. 105-111

in: Nimrod Bar Am, Stefano Gattei (eds), Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

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:

Abraham Meidan, "Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa", in: Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017