Can you learn data mining in undergraduate or graduate school?
I was recently asked by a former student from one of my data mining courses if a particular program was…
What Makes a Data Mining Skeptic?
I just found this post expressing skepticism about data mining (I'll let go the comment about predictive analytics being the…
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 would be most useful for you at a…
Two Books of Interest
Recently, I have been reading two books which may be of interest to data miners, Statistical Rules of Thumb by…
When Distributions Go Bad
Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than classification). They were interested in using linear regression,…
Data Mining: Widespread Acceptance When?
Data mining is widely accepted today among industries which have a history of "management by numbers", such as banking, pure…
Three Critical Junctures
I don't know that it's possible to say that any single part of the data mining process is the "most…
Data Mining: Interesting Ethical Questions
Data mining permits useful extrapolation from sometimes obscure clues. Information which human experts have ignored as irrelevant has been eagerly…
Another Moneyball quote
Gotta get back in the habit of posting...A quick way is to post another quote from Moneyball that I really…
What is Predictive Analytics?
I just saw this link about the difference between BI and Predictive Analytics. This comes on the heels of a…