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...
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Mining stock market data

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
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Interview with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

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
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On ethical issues of randomized experiments

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
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Guest blogger on DMR: 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
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