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…
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…
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…
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…
