Monday, March 19, 2007

Document, Document, Document!

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I recently came across a cautionary list of "worst practices", penned by Dorian Pyle, titled This Way Failure Lies . No one likes...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Missing Values and Special Values: The Plague of Data Analysis

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Every so often, an article is published on data mining which includes a statistic like "Amount of data mining time spent preparing the ...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Oh the ways data visualization enlightens!

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I came across a blog awhile ago by Matthew Hurst called Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media , but revisited it today be...

Model Selection Poll Closed

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The poll is closed, with votes as follows: R^2 or MSE 21% Lift or Gains 46% True Alert vs. False Aler...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Is Data Mining Too Complicated?

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I just read an interesting post on Infoworld entitled Data Mining Donald . In it there is a very interesting comment, and I quote: Data mini...
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Another Perspective on Data Mining and Terrorism

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Recently, much has written specifically about data mining's likely usefulness as a defense against terrorism. This posting takes "...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Quote of the day

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"[Statistics] means never having to say you're sure." I first heard this from John Elder, and it is documented here where Joh...
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Monday, February 05, 2007

Poll: Model Selection

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In the spirit of the latest posts on model selection, here is a poll to get feedback on that question. I understand that few practitioners a...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

When some models are signficantly better than others

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I'm not a statistician, nor have I played one on TV. That’s not to say I’m not a big fan of statistics. In the age-old debate between da...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Data Mining Acceptance

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Dean has written recently about confusion surrounding the term "data mining" (see his Jan-11-2007 posting, Will the term "Da...
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