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I think "mining" here is used rather carelessly. In the quote, I think he intends it to be read by a general audience as extracting data from some external sour

by abeppu 6y ago

I think "mining" here is used rather carelessly. In the quote, I think he intends it to be read by a general audience as extracting data from some external source, akin to scraping, i.e. mining a source for data. Maybe they don't do that. But "data mining" is also a term for analysis which finds patterns or insights in a large dataset, i.e. data is the input from which more valuable results are filtered/composed/summarized. I thought Palantir was all about that.

ptmcc 6y ago
> But "data mining" is also a term for analysis which finds patterns or insights in a large dataset, i.e. data is the input from which more valuable results are filtered/composed/summarized. I thought Palantir was all about that. Indeed, that definition is definitely how I, and most tech-oriented folks I interact with, would define data mining. First and foremost. But as stated in a different comment thread above, they don't "do" data mining, they just sell data mining tools and how-to manuals! Totally not the same thing!