DeanAbbott

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San Diego Forum on Analytics — review

I just got back from the half-day Forum on Analytics in San…

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New Data Mining Book Out

The new Nisbet, Elder, and Miner book is out now, and has…

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Is analytics a winner in a recession?

Even in a recession, analytics can (and should) do well. I am…

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Why normalization matters with K-Means

A question about K-means clustering in Clementine was posted here. I thought…

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DM Radio and Text Mining

I'll be interviewed on the topic of text mining this coming Thursday,…

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Data Mining Data Sets

Every once in a while I receive a request or see one…

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When Distributions Go Bad

Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than…

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KDD 2008

It's hard to believe that KDD2008 was the first KDD I've attended…

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What data mining software to buy?

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

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Two Books of Interest

Recently, I have been reading two books which may be of interest…

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