Data Mining: How You're Revealing More Than You Think

Data mining recently made big news with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but it is not just for ads and politics. It can help doctors spot fatal infections and it can even predict massacres in the Congo. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewArticle/1230 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/15/beer_diapers/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-data-mining-but-were-afraid-to-ask/255388/ https://www.economist.com/node/15557465 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/9-bizarre-and-surprising-insights-from-data-science/ https://qz.com/584287/data-scientists-keep-forgetting-the-one-rule-every-researcher-should-know-by-heart/ https://www.amazon.com/Predictive-Analytics-Power-Predict-Click/dp/1118356853 http://dml.cs.byu.edu/~cgc/docs/mldm_tools/Reading/DMSuccessStories.html http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2058205,00.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/de/Documents/deloitte-analytics/Deloitte_Predictive-Maintenance_PositionPaper.pdf https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/htoivone/pubs/advances.pdf http://cecs.louisville.edu/datamining/PDF/0471228524.pdf https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/bizarre-insights-from-big-data https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/political_campaigns_and_big_data_0.pdf https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/09/30/50-strangest-genre-names/ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/12/food.foodanddrink1 https://adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/real-world-data-science-how-ebay-and-placed-put-theory-into-practice/ https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-weekly-online-music-curation-interview http://blog.galvanize.com/spotify-discover-weekly-data-science/ Audio Source: https://freesound.org/people/makosan/sounds/135191/ Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swiss_average.png