Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reality mining

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables: re-al-i-ty min-ing
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Most working professionals already carry microphones (cell phones), and many also carry PDAs with ample computational horsepower. This foundation of mobile communications and processing power will support an exciting new suite of business applications: reality mining."
"Practitioners of Reality Mining soon discover the multitudes of analytic techniques suitable for their data sets."
"From the start, [Alex] Pentland understood reality mining as the gateway to a new universe of commercial opportunities. In 2004 he asserted that cell phones and other wearable devices with “computational horsepower” would provide the “foundation” for reality mining as an “exciting new suite of business applications.”"

Etymology

Coined by Alex Pentland and Nathan Eagle, after data mining, etc.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does reality mining mean?: The collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior.
Where does reality mining come from?: Coined by Alex Pentland and Nathan Eagle, after data mining, etc.

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