Google can mine the web for historical purposes. That what BBC explains in
this article. The idea is to allow every Google user to search for historical events among the web.
Google News Archive Search allows to browse 200 years of history among digitised newspaper articles. Although, it will certainly not replace a…
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You can now have access to the
RSS Feed of this blog through the corresponding icon in the bottom right part of this page. My personal choice for RSS reader is the Google one. You can choose among many very well known RSS feed and simply add your personal one. In addition, you can completely configure the layout by adding weather forecast, time and other things in many tabs…
One purpose of this blog is to give pointers to interesting research in data mining. More particularly, I want to emphasis on data mining applications to non usual domains such as engineering. An example of research field for data mining is explained in the work of Nguyen and Chan in 2005 (1). Their paper describes…
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You perhaps think that I will write about one of the existing function of Google such as AdWord or AdSense... wrong! The topic of this new is about mining the web with Google to achieve illegal issues. Recently, Dave Goldsmith, founder and president of a security company, has explained to
eWeek how to find…
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Echelon was peanuts!
Here is an example of the dark side of data mining. To be correct, I should say the dark side of the use of data mining. Indeed, data mining can be considered as a tool. It can be used for both positive and negative purposes…
This book introduces the concepts of kernel-based methods and focuses specifically on Support Vector Machines (SVM). It is hard to read and a good background in mathematic is clearly needed. The book has a strong emphasis on SVM starting from the very first line of text. Concepts are well explained, although equations are not clear. The notation doesn't facilitate the reading at all. The book covers linear as well as…
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Yet another Google functionality? Yes and no. Indeed, as for the Google Spell Checker (see
here), this is a specific way of using the Google search engine. The concept is to let Google mine the web to give you the definition of a term with some pictures (instead of using Google Translator which only gives you textual translations). Let's say you want to know what does the French term…
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Google can mine the web for historical purposes. That what BBC explains in this article. The idea is to allow every Google user to search for historical events among the web. Google News Archive Search allows to browse 200 years of history among digitised newspaper articles. Although, it will certainly not replace a… Continue reading...
One purpose of this blog is to give pointers to interesting research in data mining. More particularly, I want to emphasis on data mining applications to non usual domains such as engineering. An example of research field for data mining is explained in the work of Nguyen and Chan in 2005 (1). Their paper describes… Continue reading... | 2 Comments
You perhaps think that I will write about one of the existing function of Google such as AdWord or AdSense... wrong! The topic of this new is about mining the web with Google to achieve illegal issues. Recently, Dave Goldsmith, founder and president of a security company, has explained to eWeek how to find… Continue reading...
Echelon was peanuts! Here is an example of the dark side of data mining. To be correct, I should say the dark side of the use of data mining. Indeed, data mining can be considered as a tool. It can be used for both positive and negative purposes… 
