DM: RE: Data Mining in Small Databases

Small databases certainly do contain valuable information.  The economics of
data mining tend to drive interest in large databases, because the economic
gains tend to increase with scale, while mining costs tend to be fixed.  As
costs decline, the scale needed to break even declines.  In addition, a data
mining solution that can scale horizontally across many small databases
could create huge opportunities.

TD

-----Original Message-----
From: Bostjan Brumen [mailto:Brumen@pori.tut.fi]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:46 AM
To: datamine-l@nautilus-sys.com
Subject: DM: Data Mining in Small Databases



Hi!

I've been doing some research on Data Mining and have come into the =
twilight zone: why is everybody talking only about "large" databases? =
What about "small" databases - don't they have anything valuable inside? =
Don't they hide nuggets, useful patterns?

And, nobody (best to my knowledge) has come up with a definition of =
"small" and "large" - not in terms of bits and bytes, but something more =
persistent to the change.

If you have an opinion about the themes I outlined in the questions =
please drop me a note. I will appreciate your comments.

Best,
Bostjan Brumen

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