Lessons from the philosophy of science to data mining and vice versa

Abraham Meidan

pp. 105-111

in: Nimrod Bar Am, Stefano Gattei (eds), Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

Data-mining (and machine learning) algorithms try to find interesting valid patterns in data. As such they perform a task similar to a scientist who searches for a theory that explains the data.