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Kosmix: Clustering Search Results
I’ve recently come across Kosmix, a new search engine that clusters the results by topics but also, and that’s interesting, by category (wikipedia, blog, videos, news, shopping, social networks, etc.). I am really impressed by the quality and the...
eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit
The next eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit takes place in San Jose, May 4-7. You can have a 12% discount using the DMRESEARCH12 code when registrating. Here are the keynote speakers: - Jim Sterne, Target Marketing - Mark Skidmore, Director,...
Trust, Risk, Reputation and Recommendation on the Web
TR4Web2009 (Trust, Risk, Reputation and Recommendation on the Web) is a workshop that will take place in Riga (Latvia) September 7, 2009. I belong to the programm committee of this workshop which is in conjuction with ADBIS’2009, the 13th...
Poll Results: What Networks Do You Use?
Here are the results of the last poll on Data Mining Research. The question was: What Networks Do You Use?Click to enlarge.This was a multiple choice poll. 50 people responded to this poll. The most common networks used (46%) are still the “old”...
Data Mining Research Updated
I’m happy to inform you that Data Mining Research (www.dataminingblog.com) is updated! The blog is now on Wordpress and self-hosted with a private domain name (this was already the case before). I have tried to make all the links work correctly. If...
On the Beauty of Data Mining
When my family and my friends ask me what I plan to work on in the future, they are always surprised by my answer: A different field of application. People usually wonder why I want to change. Is there something you don’t like in your current field...
Blog Maintenance
Dear readers, after more than two years of blogging using Blogger, Data Mining Research will skip to Wordpress (self hosted). Indeed, Blogger is a good choice to start a blog but it has several limitations. A self hosted blog using Wordpress...
Data Miners on Twitter
After the LinkedIn and Facebook phenomena, here comes Twitter. When the short process of account creation is done, you can start writing small “posts” of maximum 140 characters. Twitter is a kind of micro-blogging platform. It is...
Top 5 Reasons R is Good for you
After reading the interesting post of Ajay, I decided to write a post about the good aspects of R. First, I would like to state that I’m not a SAS nor a Clementine user. So the following arguments are my opinions as a R programmer: R is easy...
Adverstise on Data Mining Research
Data Mining Research proposes you to advertise you company, website or blog through text link ads and banners. In both cases, your ad will be visible on the right sidebar of each page (post) of the blog. If you’re interested about advertising...
Thoughts for John Aitchison
Most of you certainly know the DataScience Analytics blog, a place where great posts about data mining and statistics are written by John Aitchison. I recently wanted to contact him by e-mail and got an answer from his wife Tricia Aitchison that...
Data Mining Interview: Eric Siegel
Program chair of the Predictive Analytics World in San Fransisco (more details in this post), Eric Siegel is a professor and data miner with several years experience. He kindly accepted to answer some particular questions about him and data mining...
