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Data Mining:- Data Mining is about using Statistics as well as other programming methods to find patterns
hidden in the data so that you can explain some phenomenon. Data Mining builds intuition about what is really
happening in some data and is still little more towards math than programming, but uses both. Machine Learn-
ing uses Data Mining techniques and other learning algorithms to build models of what is happening behind
some data so that it can predict future outcomes.

Barry explained that Ai appears in pretty well all walks of life from retail logistics through to Tesla pilotless
cars – albeit wit ha few technical hitches along the way. In fact AI is used pretty well everywhere from home to
industry. All these systems are gathering huge amounts of data to get Human-Like results quickly and efficient-
ly.

We produce 2.5 exabytes of data every day. That’s equivalent to 250,000 Libraries of Congress or the content
of 5 million laptops. Every minute of every day 3.2 billion global internet users continue to feed the data banks
with 9,722 pins on Pinterest, 347,222 tweets, 4.2 million Facebook likes plus ALL the other data we create by
taking pictures and videos, saving documents, opening accounts and more.

This data is 2 years old… so the numbers have increased…

The next step is Quantum computing (a topic for the future?) and the ability to process huge amounts of data.

But with all this mind blowing technology, perhaps with a few more members, we will be able to work it all out
in our heads.

6. Secretary’s Report

Dave started his report by thanking everybody for their contributions in making the last year a success. He
thanked the committee for again putting on an interesting and varied programme. Hopefully everybody found it
interesting and maybe even learnt something on the way. Topics covered last year included Chrome Books,
Photo Management and Password protection.

Another successful Photographic Competition closed 2019 and attracted an excellent array of photographs span-
ning the six categories. The entries were again of a very high standard and thanks to everyone who entered and
made it a fun evening. Well done to Bob Eagle for taking the best photo award. The members received some
very valuable constructive criticism from guest judges Arthur Payne and Trevor Greaves. Dave thanked every-
one who entered to make it a successful evening. Thanks also to Bob Eagle for selecting our 6 categories.

Dave thanked David Brown on behalf of the members, for organising our Christmas Dinner.

The new programme for 2020 is taking shape but we are always looking for new ideas and presenters. Dave
requested that if anybody had a particular computer related topic or new software, please come along and share
your experiences with the club.