Data Mining Secrets: How Your Data Could Be Revealing More Than You Know 🕵️‍♂️

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.

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