data mining

The act of browsing Facebook profiles for the viewing pleasure of an attractive person of the opposite sex.

Hey bro, I was data mining earlier and found some pics of this hawt chick.

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data mining

A kind of research which studies existing research, with the motive of repurposing it to promote a certain interpretation.

A common means of developing spin for a story.

Using data mining, I was able to make the last several wars look like clear US victories.

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data mining

In online poker, to observe tables with the intention of collecting information on how other players play in the form of hand histories.

At one time it was argued that this is data collection rather than 'mining' per se but the term appears to have become accepted terminology in online poker circles.

Am I a huge online poker underdog without data mining? (Two Plus Two forums)

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data mining

When somebody attempts to 'mine' data from a www server by guessing which unseen directories are browseable.

I found pictures of your dad with a tranny in /private/dad/

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data-mining

Is the process of extracting patterns from large data sets by combining methods from statistics and artificial intelligence with database management

They ran the DNS from Troy Jackson's email account and were data-mining you.

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Chinese Overlord Data Mining With Video Conference Bonus

Basically Zoom or Google Meet.

Guy 1: Zoom is just Chinese Overlord Data Mining With Video Conference Bonus

Guy 2: Yeah, I agree

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Data Mining

The belief that any sufficiently large amount of data contains the information you want with probability aprroaching 1.

- I really wanted this study to proof that my saliva cures cancer, but it doesn't work.
+Have you tried data mining?