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…
Some Interesting Analyses
I find it interesting to learn what other people are working on. To me, the applications can be as interesting…
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…
Predictive Analytics Webinar
I'm participating in a free webinar through The Modeling Agency tomorrow at 4pm EDT (1pm PDT) for anyone interested in listening…
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…
DM Radio and Text Mining
I'll be interviewed on the topic of text mining this coming Thursday, April 17th at 3pm EDT on DM Radio…
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…
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…
