Build your own slide rule with R
If you're a retro-geek like me with fond memories of slide rules but have long since lost yours, now you…
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…
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…
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…
