Interview: Jon Peck SPSS
I was in the middle of interviewing people as well as helping the good people in my new role as…
Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Announces Version 3.0
Today Alltop announced version 3.0. Alltop is an RSS aggregating site, “like a digital news rack” which organizes sites according…
Data modeling infrastructure in data mining
I've had two inquiries in the last day relating to the building of data infrastructure between the database and predictive…
Could these be great days for data miners?
In a recent article on cfo.com, Data Mining in the Meltdown: the Last, Best Hope? the author describes how data…
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…
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,…
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…
