The future of …
- Data mining:
o Web structure mining (studying the web structure of web pages) and web usage analysis (studying the usage of web pages) will become more prominent in the future. Victor and Rex (2016) stated that web mining differs from traditional data mining by scale (web information is much larger in number, making 10M web pages seem like it’s too small), access (web information is mostly public, whereas traditional data could be private), and structure (web pages have unstructured, and semi-structured data, whereas traditional data mining, has some explicit level of structure). The structure of a website can contain: Page Rank, Page number, Damping factor, Number of pages, out-links, in-links, etc. Your page is considered an authoritative piece if there are many in-links, or it can be considered a hub if it has many out-links, and this helps define page rank and structure of the website (Victor & Rex, 2016). But, page rank is too trivial of calculation. One day we will be able to not only know a page rank of a website, but learn its domain authority, page authority, and domain validity, which will help define how much value a particular site can bring to the person. If Google were to adopt these measures, we could see
- Data mining’s link to knowledge management (KM):
o A move towards the away from KM tools and tool set to seeing knowledge as being embedded into as many processes and people as possible (Ferguson, 2016). KM relies on sharing, and as we move away from tools, processes will be setup to allow this sharing to happen. Sharing occurs more frequently with an increase in interactive and social environments (Ferguson, 2016). Thus, internal corporate social media platforms may become the central data warehouse, hosting all kinds of knowledge. The issue and further research need to go into this, is how do we more people engaged on a new social media platform to eventually enable knowledge sharing. Currently, forums, YouTube, and blogs are inviting, highly inclusive environments that share knowledge, like how to solve a particular issue (evident by YouTube video tutorials). In my opinion, these social platforms or methods of sharing, show the need for a more social, inclusive, and interactive environment needs to be for knowledge sharing to happen more organically.
o IBM (2013), shows us a glimpse of how knowledge management from veteran police officers, crime data stored in a crime data warehouse, the power of IBM data mining, can be to identifying criminals. Mostly criminals commit similar crimes with similar patterns and motives. The IBM tools augment officer’s knowledge, by narrowing down a list of possible suspects of crime down to about 20 people and ranking them on how likely the suspects committed this new crime. This has been used in Miami-Dade County, the 7th largest county in the US, and a tool like this will become more widespread with time.
- Business Intelligence (BI) program and strategy:
o Potential applications of BI and strategy will go into the health care industry. Thanks to ObamaCare (not being political here), there will be more data coming in due to an increase in patients having coverage, thus more chances to integrate: hospital data, insurance data, doctor diagnosis, patient care, patient flow, research data, financial data, etc. into a data warehouse to run analytics on the data to create beneficial data-driven decisions (Yeoh, & Popovič, 2016; Topaloglou & Barone, 2015).
o Potential applications of BI and strategy will affect supply chain management. The Boeing Dreamliner 787, has outsourced 30% of its parts and components, and that is different to the current Boeing 747 which is only 5% outsourced (Yeoh, & Popovič, 2016). As more and more companies increase their outsourcing percentages for their product mix, the more crucial is capturing data on fault tolerances on each of those outsourced parts to make sure they are up to regulation standards and provide sufficient reliability, utility, and warranty to the end customer. This is where tons of money and R&D will be spent on in the next few years.
References
- Ferguson, J. E. (2016). Inclusive perspectives or in-depth learning? A longitudinal case study of past debates and future directions in knowledge management for development. Journal of Knowledge Management, 20(1).
- IBM (2013). Miami-Dade Police Department: New patterns offer breakthroughs for cold cases. Smarter Planet Leadership Series. Retrieved from http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/files/us__en_us__leadership__miami_dade.pdf
- Topaloglou, T., & Barone, D. (2015) Lessons from a Hospital Business Intelligence Implementation. Retrieved from http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~krogstie/test/ceur/paper2.pdf
- Victor, S. P., & Rex, M. M. X. (2016). Analytical Implementation of Web Structure Mining Using Data Analysis in Educational Domain. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 11(4), 2552-2556.
- Yeoh, W., & Popovič, A. (2016). Extending the understanding of critical success factors for implementing business intelligence systems. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(1), 134-147.
Dr. Skylar (Sky) Hernandez 