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Rattle and Other Data Mining Tales

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My own voyage to data mining started long before data mining had a name. It started as a curiosity that a young scientist had in searching for interesting patterns in data. In fact, the journey began in 1983 as an artificial intelligence Ph.D. student at the Australian National University, under Professor Robin Stanton.

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    A motto borrowed from the Australian Taxation Office: http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/78950.htm .

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    https://freedomboxfoundation.org/.

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Williams, G.J. (2012). Rattle and Other Data Mining Tales. In: Gaber, M. (eds) Journeys to Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28047-4_15

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