Saturday, November 22, 2008

What is Predictive Analytics?

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I just saw this link about the difference between BI and Predictive Analytics. This comes on the heels of a meeting I had with UCSD Extensio...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

What topics would you like to see covered at a KDD conference?

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This is your chance to voice your opinion! What topics, sessions, or tutorials would be most useful for you at a conference like KDD? Would ...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Two Books of Interest

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Recently, I have been reading two books which may be of interest to data miners, Statistical Rules of Thumb by Gerald Van Belle (ISBN-13: 9...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

KDD 2008

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It's hard to believe that KDD2008 was the first KDD I've attended in seven years. It was striking how much has changed in that time,...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

What data mining software to buy?

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This post ( http://www.dmreview.com/issues/2007_46/10001040-1.html?portal=analytics ) is an interesting example of the assessment of analyti...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

What Makes a Data Mining Skeptic?

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I just found this post expressing skepticism about data mining (I'll let go the comment about predictive analytics being the holy grail ...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

When Distributions Go Bad

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Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than classification). They were interested in using linear r...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Data Mining survey

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Karl Rexer of Rexer Analytics conducted an extensive survey of data miners in 2007, and reported on those results here at Quirks.com (a si...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Data Mining Data Sets

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Every once in a while I receive a request or see one posted on some bulletin board about data mining data sets. I have to say, I have little...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

DM Radio and Text Mining

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I'll be interviewed on the topic of text mining this coming Thursday, April 17th at 3pm EDT on DM Radio along with Barry DeVille of SAS ...