Timeline for What is the difference between data mining and data fishing?
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| S May 28, 2021 at 16:14 | history | suggested | Flux | Add "terminology" tag | |
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 20:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackStats/status/659107567319306240 | ||
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:40 | comment | added | Cliff AB | @mmh: what you describe is what I would call "cherry picking". Wikipedia appears to agree with my view of what data fishing is (see answer below), but personally I think that is just by chance; I don't think "data-fishing" has an exact definition and in truth I think both definitions could be considered data fishing. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:09 | answer | added | Cliff AB | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 14:44 | comment | added | ttnphns | Fishing goes with bait, mining - with straining. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 14:38 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 14:37 | comment | added | mmh | Data mining is about finding interesting patterns in a complicated dataset. Data fishing refers to the unethical activity of picking only the "correct" observations. Try "data mining" and "data dredging" articles from Wikipedia. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 14:30 | history | asked | David Stokar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |