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Another Moneyball quote

Gotta get back in the habit of posting...A quick way is to…

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Data Mining: Interesting Ethical Questions

Data mining permits useful extrapolation from sometimes obscure clues. Information which human…

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Can you learn data mining in undergraduate or graduate school?

I was recently asked by a former student from one of my…

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What Makes a Data Mining Skeptic?

I just found this post expressing skepticism about data mining (I'll let…

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

This is your chance to voice your opinion!What topics, sessions, or tutorials…

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Two Books of Interest

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

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When Distributions Go Bad

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

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Data Mining: Does It Get Any Better Than This?

The article Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs appeared in…

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Data Mining: Widespread Acceptance When?

Data mining is widely accepted today among industries which have a history…

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Some Interesting Analyses

I find it interesting to learn what other people are working on.…

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