ComputerWorld Canada has published a story on the Data Mining With Criminal Intent project, U of A text mining project could help businesses (Rafael Ruffolo, March 25, 2010 for ComputerWorld Canada.) Canadian participant Geoffrey Rockwell is quoted to the effect that,

“instead of looking for a needle in the haystack, an effective text mining tool will try and show you the shape of the haystack and tell you the words you might want to find.”