Or you can datamine for some ideas, and then use those ideas as hypothesis for testing. There's nothing wrong with judicious use of data-mining as a tool in res

Or you can datamine for some ideas, and then use those ideas as hypothesis for testing. There's nothing wrong with judicious use of data-mining as a tool in research. In many ways, the patterns that emerge out of data mining can become the 'huh, that's weird' moments of the future, especially as we start dealing with observations beyond a single human sense's scale.