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…
Text Mining and Regular Expressions
I've been spending quite a lot of time in the bowels of a text mining project recently, mostly in the…
Maybe these will be great days for data miners!
While perusing the NC State Institute for Advanced Analytics site (to follow up on the previous post on data mining…
Data Mining: Does It Get Any Better Than This?
The article Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs appeared in the Jan-26-2009 issue of The Wall Street Journal,…
Some Interesting Analyses
I find it interesting to learn what other people are working on. To me, the applications can be as interesting…
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 software. The key paragraph is the conclusion where…
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…
Random things…
I was just looking at my favorite economics blog, The Skeptical Optimist, and saw a post on randomness based on…
eMetrics Conference
Early-bird pricing ends Friday for the May 4-7 eMetrics conference in San Jose. You get a 12% discount if you…
“I propose a new definition of business intelligence … Wikipedia provides a simple layperson…”
“I propose a new definition of business intelligence … Wikipedia provides a simple layperson description of intelligence as “the capacities…
