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The Journey of Knowledge Discovery

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I talk about my journey as a scientist, a data miner, and a consultant; about history of KDD conferences and data mining field; and about interesting cases from my practice.

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    As of 2010, US health-care costs were estimated at 15% of GDP [8].

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Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to my family and especially my wife for her support and encouragement. Part of this was presented to the KDD-99 10-year anniversary panel and published in SIGKDD Explorations, 2000. I thank Mohamed Medhat Gaber for his encouragement to write this chapter and for his patience.

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    Mohamed Medhat Gaber

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Piatetsky-Shapiro, G. (2012). The Journey of Knowledge Discovery. In: Gaber, M. (eds) Journeys to Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28047-4_13

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