Hoover, Kevin; Perez, Stephen - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 7 (2001) 2, pp. 195-210
'Data mining' refers to a broad class of activities that have in common, a search over different ways to process or …. We characterize three attitudes toward data mining: first, that it is to be avoided and, if it is engaged in, that … and considerations of epistemic warrant and, reaches an unnecessarily hostile attitude toward data mining. The second …