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DATA MINING

Data mining explores how companies and individuals are creating new businesses and services by searching out patterns in electronic data. It focuses especially on how people’s lives increasingly are data mined and modeled, as analysts study the behavior of shoppers, voters, patients, workers and potential terrorists.

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Borders' Shuttering Presents Challenge for Web and Local Search Engine...more

The final closing of Borders stores (today is their last day) will present an interesting test for web and local search...

Visualizing Lexical Novelty in Literaturemore

Novels are full of new characters, new locations and new expressions. The discourse between characters involves new...

Global Search and Geographic Contextmore

When we think about the mapping platforms of search engines, we often think specifically of local use cases - finding...

Local Search Interfaces - What The Pho?more

Hey - let's look at how the search engines show local results. What the Pho is one of my favourite Seattle based pho...

Peeking into the Future by Text Mining: Zapaday, Recorded Futuremore

Briefly, Zapaday is a new (in alpha) online tool which mines the web (with a bit of editorial thrown in) for future...

How To Write an Academic Paper in Text Miningmore

I'm completing a set of reviews for a reasonably high quality conference that touches on data mining and text mining...

Lexical Growth in Various Booksmore

An interesting evaluation of any text is the probability of encountering a new word as one progresses through the...

How Hard is the Local Search Problem?more

[this post is a work in progress] If I take a look at Google's local search results for a moderately populated road in...

Breaking: New BBC Site Designmore

I've just spotted this new BBC (news) site design. The pallete is quite a departure from the original (see my earlier...

Visualizing Jane Austen Part 2more

A better way to do this is to format with the columns indicating the chapters (rather than arbitrary flow based layout).

Visualizing Jane Austenmore

A simple experiment - render a book in a summary form and highlight specific terms by changing the color of the...

The roots of the word "numerati"more

It was long my goal to make "numerati" a common word. Most of us don't get too many chances in life to create...

Focus on GDPmore

I've put together an example of a focus page on d8taplex aimed at bringing together different data sets under one topic...

Statistics Exchange: Analyzing Tesco - the analytics behind a top-notc...more

Visualization of Google Plus Graphmore

I took a sample of the Google Plus graph and loaded it up in to the excellent Gephi graph rendering package.

Google's Slipping Product Quality?more

When I'm signed in to Google and issue a regular web search, this is what I visually see: What's with the black...

Factual's Crosswalk APImore

Factual, which is mining the web for knowledge using a variety of web mining methods, has released an API in the local...

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology for Text Mining: Categoriesmore

Modeling the world is a key part of text mining. Modeling is an activity that comes after someone makes a statement...

World History Timelinemore

This visualization of world history, with time and location as the major axes, is one of the simplest but best I've...

BuzzData - Initial Thoughtsmore

I've been tracking BuzzData for a while (see posts on data engines). It is now open for business. Firstly, what is...

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology for Text Miningmore

In text mining applications, we often work with some form of raw input (web pages, web sites, emails, etc.

Yet another "Wisdom of Crowds" successmore

I was at the Federal Building downtown San Diego for a consulting job, and met some representatives for a life and...

What do Data Miners Need to Learn?more

I've been asked by several folks recently what they need to learn to succeed in data mining and predictive analytics.

Learn to Extract Marketing Insights from Datamore

Data will produce new value for businesses whether it’s setting up web analytics, collecting email addresses or...

Mapping Locals and Tourists Behaviour with Flickrmore

The Dohop blog points to some great work by Eric Fischer which provides a visualization contrasting a locals view of...

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  • Stephen Baker - The Numerati
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