Reality Mining
April 29, 2008 by Sandro Saitta · Leave a Comment
Filed under: cellphone mining, data privacy, reality mining
Filed under: cellphone mining, data privacy, reality mining
The answer to the question you're asking yourself right now is yes. Yes, you will have to add this term to the actual data mining glossary. As presented in the April 2008 issue of Technology Review, reality mining consists of mining personal data for understanding social interactions and more generally human behavior… Continue reading...
Mining stock market data
April 24, 2008 by Sandro Saitta · 4 Comments
Filed under: data mining application, finance, stock market
Filed under: data mining application, finance, stock market
After 4 years in the academic world, I will now jump into the industrial world! From beginning of May, I will work in a small financial company in Nyon (Switzerland). I will basically use data mining to help traders invest money. The job seems very exciting, especially since I'm new to the stock market domain… Continue reading... | 4 Comments
Interview with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
April 15, 2008 by Sandro Saitta · 2 Comments
Filed under: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, data mining interview, data mining opinion, data mining people
Filed under: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, data mining interview, data mining opinion, data mining people
Today, my post is a very special one. I have the great pleasure to propose to you a very private interview with one of the data mining guru, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, from KDnuggets. He kindly accepted to answer to my questions. For the pleasure of the DMR readers, here is the interview:Data Mining
On ethical issues of randomized experiments
April 8, 2008 by Sandro Saitta · 2 Comments
Filed under: Ian Ayres, ethics, randomized experiments, super crunchers
After reading Super Crunchers, a recent book by Ian Ayres, I have thought of ethical aspects of some experiments he mentioned (note that he is not involved in these experiments). In a few words, the idea of so called randomized experiments is to run an experiment with different parameters on the same population (in a somehow large scale) to see the influence of such parameters. Ayres gives several
Filed under: Ian Ayres, ethics, randomized experiments, super crunchers
Guest blogger on DMR: Kevin Hillstrom
April 1, 2008 by Sandro Saitta · 3 Comments
Filed under: Multichannel Forensics, guest blogger, kevin hillstrom
Filed under: Multichannel Forensics, guest blogger, kevin hillstrom
It is my pleasure to welcome Kevin Hillstrom, President of MineThatData, on Data Mining Research. Kevin is a blogger at the MineThatData blog and he has accepted my invitation for a guest post on DMR. Here is his post:Why Multichannel Forensics MatterKevin Hillstrom, President, MineThatDataHumans are good at… Continue reading... | 3 Comments














