Giga-mining
Corinna Cortes, Daryl Pregibon · Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 1998
We describe an industrial-strength data mining application in telecommunications. The application requires building a short (7 byte) profile for all telephone numbers seen on a large telecom network. By large, we mean very large: we maintain approximately 350 million profiles. In addition, the procedure for updating these profiles is based on processing approximately 275 million call records per day. We discuss the motivation for massive tracking and fully describe the definition and the computation of one of the more interesting bytes in the profile.