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Tips, tricks, and comments related to topics in data science and machine learning. Used to be called "data mining and predictive analytics" but updated the title to reflect the language of the day!
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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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