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mine2 CONSTRUCTSData miningAGRAWAL · PATTERNSExhaustible stockHOTELLING · STOCK

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1931Exhaustible stock1993Data mining
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Data science

Extracting patterns from data

In data science to mine is to extract regularities from a large body of data, and the mining metaphor names the discovery, not any physical earth. Agrawal, Imieliński, and Swami (1993) gave the field one of its founding operations: mining association rules between sets of items in a transaction database, the pattern that customers who buy one thing tend to buy another. The referent is a relationship latent in records, the unit is a discovered rule scored by its support and confidence, and the object is a pattern, not a place or a device. Unlike an orebody the source is not consumed by the work; the same database can be mined again and again for different rules.[1]

Unit
A pattern or rule discovered in a body of data
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
By the support, confidence, and lift of the rules found, and the count of patterns mined from the database

Economics

A depletable resource stock

In economics a mine is a finite stock of an exhaustible resource, and the question it poses is not how to dig it but how fast to draw it down over time. Hotelling's The economics of exhaustible resources (1931) framed the mine as a depletable asset whose owner weighs extracting a unit today against leaving it in the ground to sell later, and derived the rule that its price net of extraction cost must rise at the rate of interest for the owner to be indifferent. The referent is a stock and an extraction path through time, the unit is a quantity of reserve and its scarcity rent, and the mine here is an economic abstraction, indifferent to whether the resource is copper, oil, or a fishery treated the same way.[2]

Unit
A finite reserve and its optimal extraction path over time
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
By the stock size, the extraction rate over time, and the scarcity rent rising at the interest rate under Hotelling's rule

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References

  1. Agrawal, R., Imieliński, T., & Swami, A. (1993). Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases. Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 207–216. https://doi.org/10.1145/170035.170072
  2. Hotelling, H. (1931). The economics of exhaustible resources. Journal of Political Economy, 39(2), 137–175. https://doi.org/10.1086/254195

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