Data Mining For Dummies

Chapter 3

Teaming Up to Reach Your Goals

In This Chapter

Establishing working partnerships with your colleagues

Leveraging the complementary skills and knowledge of others to reach your goals

Respecting boundaries

As a data miner, you’ll make the most of your own business knowledge. Your understanding of the data’s origins and implications is an invaluable asset. However, that doesn’t mean you should work alone.

You’re only one person. You can’t do everything, and you can’t know everything. By pairing your own knowledge and skills with the talents of your peers in complementary roles, you can get a deeper understanding of the challenges you face and a more realistic picture of what solutions might (or might not) be feasible. And the right team can prevent you from slipping into pitfalls with business processes, ethics, and even the law.

This chapter shows you the benefits of working with others.

Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Be a Data Miner

If you’ve read a few news reports about data mining, you may have gotten the impression that it’s more complex than brain surgery. It isn’t. You may have heard that data miners can learn things about you that you don’t even know yourself. That’s ...