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Comments on the Nine Laws of Data Mining
After reading the article from Tom Khabaza, I want to discuss some aspects of it with you. The article is in general nicely written and shows the experience of the author, however I do have comments for some of the laws. In the first law, it...
Data Mining Interview: Guillaume Main
Guillaume Main is the creator of Statosphère, one of the most famous blog about statistics in France. He accepted to answer the questions of Data Mining Research. I’m very happy to have a french point of view on statistics and analytics. Thanks for...
Data Mining Book Review: Data Mining with R
Luis Torgo, interviewed on Data Mining Research, has recently published a book on data mining entitled “Data Mining with R, Learning with Case Studies”. The book starts with an Introduction to R. Nicely written, it explains concepts that are needed...
Guest Post: Can Database Developers do Data Mining ?
Today’s post has been written by Brendan Tierney, consultant and lecturer with the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland. He discusses the fact that DB developers are better suited for data mining than people with statistic background. I let you...
Data Mining Interview: Luis Torgo
Today on Data Mining Research I receive Luis Torgo. He is the author of “Data Mining with R: learning with case studies” (to be reviewed soon on DMR). Luis has kindly accepted to answer a few questions for the readers of Data Mining Research. Thanks...
Top Five Articles in Data Mining
During the last years, I’ve read several data mining articles. Here is a list of my top five articles in data mining. For each article, I put the title, the authors and part of the abstract. Feel free to suggest your favorite ones. An Introduction...
Data Mining Research Interview: Roberto Battiti
After reading the first chapters of Reactive Business Intelligence, I was suprised: what a clear way of presenting complex topics! I thus decided to ask a few question to one of the author, Roberto Battiti. To know more about their excellent book,...
Data Mining Book Review: Competing on Analytics
After reading the excellent book Analytics at Work, I went back in time to read the first book of Davenport and Harris. Competing on Analytics, The New Science of Winning is written for data miners and analytical people as well as for decision...
Data mining 'one-click' applications
I recently read an interesting article from Analytics Magazine entitled “Managing fundamental tradeoffs” by Mu Zhu. This article is interesting since it explains what prevent easy automation of data mining tools. According to the author: “Algorithms...
Data Mining Research Interview: Stuart Shulman
Today on Data Mining Research, Stuart Shulman is answering our questions regarding his tool DiscoverText and his company Texifter. Stuart, thanks for sharing your work and taking some time to answer Data Mining Research questions. Data Mining...
Data Mining Research Awards 2010
Like the music or the cinema, Data Mining Research has its own awards. I think it is important to congratulate people for what they do, especially if they do it well. The following awards have been attributed in a subjective way: they only reflect...
Data preprocessing for clustering: survey
The University of Jena (Germany) is currently working on preprocessing for clustering. It is part of a bigger project (WhiBo). They have prepared a survey that takes around 10 minutes to fill. Here is a brief explanation about their survey: “...
