SVM toolboxes

June 10, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · 4 Comments
Filed under: support vector machine, svm, toolbox 
Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a popular machine learning technique proposed by Vapnik and co-workers in 1992. I know that several existing tools are available for SVM such as:
  • MySVM
  • SVMlight
  • Torch
  • LibSVM
I'm curious to know which of these toolboxes you have used and liked (for those of you who have done SVM). If you think at another toolbox, feel free to comment as well.P.S. Since I have to go to the army
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Using Google to mine sensitive data

June 6, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Google, hacker, sensitive information 
The time when hackers where trying to directly attack companies may be over. Nowadays, sensitive information about a company can be found using Google and associated tools. A recent article on SearchSecurity.com explains how hacker techniques may benefit from Google search engine. The author, Bill Brenner, explains the tools used these days by hackers… Continue reading...
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Statistics vs data mining

June 4, 2007 by Sandro Saitta · 2 Comments
Filed under: dmreview, statistics 
I recently came across an article from DMReview about differences between statistics and data mining. The article from Kathy Lange has a business point of view (it is in general the point of view of the journal). After a short introduction comparing statistics and data mining, the author focus on the use of predictive… Continue reading... | 2 Comments
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