Data Mining Models as Services on the Internet

The goal of this article is to raise a debate on the usefulness of providing data mining models as services on the internet. These services can be provided by anyone with adequate data and expertise and made available on the internet for anyone to use. For instance, Yahoo or Altavista, given their huge categorized document collection, can train a document classifier and provide the model as a service on the internet. This way data mining can be made accessible to a wider audience instead of being limited to people with the data and the expertise. A host of practical problems need to be solved before this idea can be made to work. We identify them and close with an invitation for further debate and investigation.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGKDD
• Authors: Sunita Sarawagi, Sree Hari Nagaralu
• Keywords: Huge Categorized Document, Internet, SIGKDD 2000, Way Data Mining