Since several new blogs related to data mining have recently appeared, I think this is a good opportunity to summarize existing blogs. They are listed with no particular order:
After reading the comments from the
previous post on using Google Trends to find tendencies about data mining techniques, I think it is useful to make a few remarks (thanks Crawford for making me curious about that).First, I remind that the results given by Google Trends only involve the Google search engine. Even if this now the most used search engine, it is far from being the only one…
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Thanks for participating to the poll "Who are you" recently proposed on this blog. It is helpful for me to better know the audience of Data Mining Research. Here are the results over 43 votes:Data mining practitioners: 33%Data mining researchers: 44%People from other fields: 23%It is a quite good mix of researchers and practitioners. I'm surprised (in good) of the high percentage of people from other fields than data mining…
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After reading a post concerning the
PAKDD 2007 competition on
Abbott's Analytics, I was curious about the trends of some data mining methods. I decided to play with
Google Trends using three common methods: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Decision Tree (DT). The following picture shows the trends in search on Google for the three terms "svm", "neural network" and "decision tree" since…
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Anil K. Jain is a professor of Computer Science from Michigan State University. Originally from India (B.Tech. in Kanpur) he then went to US where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University. His research focus on statistical pattern recognition, data clustering, texture analysis, document image understanding and biometric authentication.It is…
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Tools like
Google Analytics are very useful to answer questions such as
How many readers do you have each day? and
Where do your readers come from? A less straightforward question, that is of interest for this post, is
Who are you? Are you a practitioner, a researcher or someone coming from another field than data mining. You can answer simply by using the following poll…
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KXEN is a company proposing data mining solutions for their customers. They are selling the KXEN Analytic Framework™ which is a suite of predictive and descriptive modeling tools for any kind of data. Recently, Miss Soulie Fogelman, working in the Europe Management Team of KXEN came to our lab in Switzerland to present ideas…
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