Today is the last post before Christmas on Data Mining Research. We are also close to new year and therefore open to new resolutions for 2007. Data Mining Research has started in June this year, although only actively in August. The aim of this blog is to discuss on various topics regarding data mining, both in the research and application point of view. Through posting on subjects such as applications…
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After reading some interesting posts on Will Dwinnell blog
Data mining in MATLAB, I realized that I haven't formally mentioned this blog on Data Mining Research (shame on me). However, I'm sure a lot of readers know him since he is very active here (I thank him by the way). The aim of this post is to remedy to that. Data mining in MATLAB is the only blog I…
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Here is an interesting ressource:
Thearling.com. This is the personal website of Kurt Thearling, an experienced data miner. Kurt has worked on several data mining softwares for many companies up to now. His webiste is a mine of information about data mining. It contains for example interesting
white papers such as
An Introduction to Data Mining and
An Overview of Data Mining Techniques. In addition to…
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Some people may complain about having too much data, hence making it difficult to clean, preprocess and understand these data. Some other might may be afraid of not having enough data for testing a new algorithm or applying a developed methodology. Concerning the latest one,
JDSBlog proposes a possible solution through
Swivel.com, a website allowing users to upload their data. The article quickly introduces Swivel and then gives…
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After two posts and several comments on data mining functionalities of SQL Server, you may want to have a look at Oracle's possibilities for data mining.
IT-Director proposes an article containing some information about Oracle and its capabilities concerning data mining tasks. The author seems positively impressed by Oracle and writes that "
Oracle
You have a few minutes before catching your train? Have a look around the world for other posts that are somehow related to data mining:
- There is a list of 30 IT trends for 2007 on jdsblog.com. Data mining is among the list.
- Matthew has a short post about the quantity of .xls files on the
After a few comments on the post
Garbage in, garbage out, I find interesting to discuss more precisely about existing pitfalls when applying data mining techniques. I warmly encourage you to give your ideas. Here are two possible pitfalls that I have now in mind:
- Underfitting/overfitting
- Data preparation (i.e. normalization, etc.)
Feel free to add elements, to…
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After two posts and several comments on data mining functionalities of SQL Server, you may want to have a look at Oracle's possibilities for data mining. IT-Director proposes an article containing some information about Oracle and its capabilities concerning data mining tasks. The author seems positively impressed by Oracle and writes that "Oracle 
After a few comments on the post Garbage in, garbage out, I find interesting to discuss more precisely about existing pitfalls when applying data mining techniques. I warmly encourage you to give your ideas. Here are two possible pitfalls that I have now in mind:
