The dark side of bioinformatics data mining
February 13th, 2007An anti-post to my previous post on data mining. The point, to illustrate how data mining can quickly become unrewarding, and worse demotivating.
I spend much of my day analysing yeast high throughput data, recently produced in the laboratory. On one hand I’m very lucky to have access to fresh data at many cellular levels. On the other hand, with all this information, I’m easily swept away by the amount of variables I have access to - the dark side of data mining.