The French also have their data miners and more particularly their data mining authors. Stéphane Tufféry is one of them. In 2008 he authored the book "Data Mining et Statistique Décisionnelle" which has been translated in English in 2011 (a huge work according to the size of the book - more than 680 pages - done by Rod Riesco). The…
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I recently discovered Cross Validated, a Q&A platform for statisticians and data miners. With Seth Rogers, Community Developer of Cross Validated, we have conducted an interview of Rob Hyndman, Professor of Statistics. Rob proposed forming this particular community. Thanks to both Seth and Rob for your collaborations.
Data Mining Research: Could you introduce yourself and explain your relationship to Analytics?
Rob Hyndman…
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How to use twitter for data miners, let me propose advices on using LinkedIn. First, you may already know that your LinkedIn account can be linked to display your tweets (see
this link). Continue by adding the right keywords in your summary, so that other data miners can find you easily. Example of terms are…
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At first, one can think of data mining as a way to answer questions. This is one manner of using data mining. Below are examples of questions:
- Which of my customers are most likely to churn next month?
- Which are the most important parameters to predict the weather of tomorrow?
- Are there groups (clusters) among my clients?
- What is the probability of
