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…
What is Predictive Analytics?
I just saw this link about the difference between BI and Predictive Analytics. This comes on the heels of a…
Another Moneyball quote
Gotta get back in the habit of posting...A quick way is to post another quote from Moneyball that I really…
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…
