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San Diego Forum on Analytics — review

I just got back from the half-day Forum on Analytics in San…

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New Data Mining Book Out

The new Nisbet, Elder, and Miner book is out now, and has…

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Is analytics a winner in a recession?

Even in a recession, analytics can (and should) do well. I am…

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Why normalization matters with K-Means

A question about K-means clustering in Clementine was posted here. I thought…

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Could these be great days for data miners?

In a recent article on cfo.com, Data Mining in the Meltdown: the…

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What Makes a Data Mining Skeptic?

I just found this post expressing skepticism about data mining (I'll let…

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Data Mining: Interesting Ethical Questions

Data mining permits useful extrapolation from sometimes obscure clues. Information which human…

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Can you learn data mining in undergraduate or graduate school?

I was recently asked by a former student from one of my…

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Predictive Analytics Webinar

I'm participating in a free webinar through The Modeling Agency tomorrow at 4pm…

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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…

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