Professor John McCarthy
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Phenomenal Data Mining

Phenomenal Data Mining concerns finding relations between data and phenomena and not just relations within the data. There isn't much AI in the paper - yet, but the idea for phenomenal data mining has somewhat of a philosophical and AI origin.

Phenomenal Data Mining concerns establishing relations among the phenomena underlying data.

A version of this paper is published in SIGKDD Explorations, Volume 1, Issue 2. It may or may not be somewhat modified from the present version.

See Appearance and Reality for a puzzle concerning finding the phenomena (reality) behind an appearance.

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