The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...

A professor has helped create a powerful new algorithm that uncovers hidden patterns in complex networks, with potential uses in fraud detection, biology and knowledge discovery. University of ...

From core shacks to cloud systems, mining is entering a digital era where innovation could shape how projects move forward. In mining, billion-dollar bets depend on how someone reads a rock.

Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face. Many of Bitcoin’s properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to a large extent ...

“These things are hard to tip over,” geologist Wilson Bonner assures me as the four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle he’s piloting tilts suddenly sideways, pitching me toward the churned up mud beneath our ...

A guide to what data mining is, how it works, and why it's important. Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists,' privacy advocates ...

Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code for the IBM 1401 and tested it on a ...

Every 2016 blocks, or about every two weeks, bitcoin resets how tough it is for miners to mine. Early Friday morning, as expected, the bitcoin code automatically made it about 7.3% more difficult to ...