Today, I would like to welcome Ben Hinchliffe as a guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Ben is working at Blue Reference, Inc. and has kindly accepted to write a post about a very interesting tool for R: Inference for R.
As noted throughout this blog, the benefits of R are extensive; owing to its overall extensibility, ease of code development, a large and growing library of statistical software packages, and…
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In my new job as a data mining consultant at
FinScore, I'm currently working on behavioral targeting for online advertising. The client is a telecom company in Switzerland. The main idea behind the project is to show ads on their website that are dependent on the profile of the visitor. In theory, online advertising is much more powerful than radio or TV advertising for example. This is mainly due…
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For those who don't know it, Smart Data Collective (SDC) is a well known network linking people from various fields such as CRM, BI, data warehousing, data mining, etc. SDC and Teradata are proposing a free seminar entitled "How to Boost Service, Cut Costs and Deliver Great Customer Experiences - Even in an Economic Downturn". It takes place at 11 a.m. EST April 16, 2009. If you're interested, feel free…
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I've recently come across
Kosmix, a new search engine that clusters the results by topics but also, and that's interesting, by category (wikipedia, blog, videos, news, shopping, social networks, etc.). I am really impressed by the quality and the aggregation level of the results obtained. For a search on "data mining", you will obtain results with such categories:
At a glance: Wikipedia excerpt
Clusters: formal science, business intelligence, computational statistics, classification…
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