Jeff Jonas: Effective Counter-Terrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining

If you're into data modeling and/or counter-terrorism analysis, check out this paper by Jeff Jonas (IBM) and Jim Harper 

Make no confusion about it; though data mining has many value uses from reducing corporate direct marketing costs, to classifying celestial objects and even medical research, it just so happens that it is not so helpful to discover underlying patterns of low- incident terrorism.

Source: Jeff Jonas: Effective Counter-Terrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining