What topics would you like to see covered at a KDD conference?
This is your chance to voice your opinion!What topics, sessions, or tutorials would be most useful for you at a…
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…
When Distributions Go Bad
Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than classification). They were interested in using linear regression,…
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,…
Two Books of Interest
Recently, I have been reading two books which may be of interest to data miners, Statistical Rules of Thumb by…
Data Mining Data Sets
Every once in a while I receive a request or see one posted on some bulletin board about data mining…
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…
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…
