Comments on: Data mining for terrorism: is it working? (cont’d)

By: Sandro Saitta

Sandro Saitta — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:40:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments and the links. As written in my post, I think that the distinction between the questions Is data mining useful for terrorism? and Should we use data mining for terrorism? is not always clear.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:38:00 +0000

I highly recommend Bruce Schneier's postings on this issue: Data Mining for Terrorists and Terrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy

The extended debates which follow in the comments section are also worth reading.

By: Tuve Löfström

Tuve Löfström — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:49:00 +0000

It should be added that data mining could be used within IF as part of the solution...
i.e. Llinas et al.

By: Tuve Löfström

Tuve Löfström — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:38:00 +0000

data mining is perhaps not as effective in this domain as, for instance, information fusion. The reason would be that we would like to detect new patterns online, from many different sources. but the techniques used in information fusion systems are often from the same (or a similar) toolbox as the one used within the data mining community.