The University of Jena (Germany) is currently working on preprocessing for clustering. It is part of a bigger
project (WhiBo). They have prepared a survey that takes around 10 minutes to fill. Here is a brief explanation about their survey:
"Although preprocessing as a first step in clustering is important, little effort is done in systematizing data preprocessing. That might cause problems for users of data mining software because they…
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I recently found a quite new blog about data mining:
Machined Learnings. Written by Paul Mineiro, this is a very technical blog with comprehensive posts. Subjects discussed are machine learning techniques and algorithms with a particular focus on online matchmaking (the job of the author). Even if you're already in couple, I'm sure you will find this blog very interesting :-) Have a nice reading!…

I will be clear from the beginning: this book is not about business intelligence. At least not the way most people understand BI. You will not read words such as data bases, data warehouse or data mart. That being said, we can start the review.
Most of the book, written by Olivia…
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Information Management has recently published an interesting article about automating analytics. Written by Bill Franks and Scott VanValkenburgh, it explains when automating analytics work and when it doesn't.
I think automating data mining is in the top five open issues in the field. It's not an easy task, but it can be very time (and thus cost)…
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