Friday, August 31, 2007

Interesting real-world example of Simpson's Paradox

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At MineThatData blog there is a very interesting post on email marketing productivity was very interesting, and a good example of Simpson...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Little League pitch counts -- data vs decisions revisited

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I posted recently on the new rules in pitch counts for Little League . I've had to defend my comments recently (in a polite way on this ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

KDNuggets Poll on "Data Mining" as a term

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KDNuggets has a new poll on whether or not "data mining" should still be used to describe the kind of analysis we all know and lov...
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The latest Y2K bug--and why mean values don't tell the whole story

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I was interested in the recent hubbub over surface temperatures as first written in NASA's Daily Tech , and picked up by other news sour...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey, Aug-2007

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Rexer Analytics recently distributed a report summarizing the findings of their survey of data miners (observation count=214, after removal ...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

NY Times Defines Data Mining

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In their article here , the NY Times defines data mining in this way: It is not known precisely why searching the databases, or data mining,...
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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Idempotent Capable Modeling Algorithms

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In Idempotent-capable Predictors , the Jul-06-2007 posting to Machine Learning (Theory) Web log, the author suggests the importance of empi...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

More Statistics Humor

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In February of this year, Dean posted a witty comment regarding statistics which ignited an amusing exchange of comments ( Quote of the day ...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

When Data and Decisions Don't Match--Little League Baseball

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Maybe it's because I used to pitch in Little League when I was a kid, but this article in the July 1 Union Tribune really struck me. It...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Is Data Mining Dangerous?

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I've had my share of data mining mishaps, but never quite this severe... Five Workers Trapped in Data Mining Accident By Brian Briggs Ne...
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