List of data mining blogs

May 30, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · 8 Comments
Filed under: Blogroll, data mining blog, list of blogs 
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:
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Google Trends

May 24, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · Leave a Comment
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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… Continue reading...
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"Who are you" poll results

May 21, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · Leave a Comment
Filed under: poll, practitioner, researcher 
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… Continue reading...
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SVM, neural network and decision tree

May 14, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · 7 Comments
Filed under: Trends, decision tree, neural network, svm 
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… Continue reading... | 7 Comments
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Data mining people

May 9, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · 1 Comment
Filed under: Jain, people 
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… Continue reading... | 1 Comment
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Who are you?

May 7, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · Leave a Comment
Filed under: poll, practitioner, reader, researcher 
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… Continue reading...
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Data mining with KXEN

May 4, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · Leave a Comment
Filed under: KXEN, data mining company 
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… Continue reading...
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