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Database Exploration and Bellman
Large industrial-scale databases tend to be poorly structured, dirty, and very confusing. There are many reasons for this disorder, not the least of which is that the application domains themselves are poorly structured, dirty and confusing. As data analysts, we are often called upon to mine, clean, or otherwise analyze these databases. In this article, we describe the types of problems we have encountered, tools and techniques we have developed to address these problems, and directions for future work