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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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Design Values: Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collectionmore

This is a follow-up article to John Schrag’s post on "Design Values". The original post described the values...

k means algorithm source code in javamore

Hi I am Thijo, very new to this forum. I need source code for k means clustering algorithm in JAVA.

The tech behind 236 eHarmony members getting hitched dailymore

While eHarmony Inc.'s goal is to get its 20 million members married or into long-term relationships, the online...

Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Datamore

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.

Prediction: Predictive Analytics will Proliferate Marketingmore

“Quantiphobes” be forewarned. Marketing metrics are about to move to the forefront. The predictive power of advanced...

The Web Knows What You Wantmore

A very compelling article written by BW reporter Baker on how marketing firms are analyzing past customer purchasing...

The Formula That Killed Wall Streetmore

For five years, David X. Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive...

Mapping a New, Mobile Internetmore

Imagine that your business had a complete log of your customers' wanderings—every trip to the grocery store, every work...

Ten Worst Practices of the Unsuccessful Data Warehouse Project Managermore

A data warehouse project manager’s job is beset with worst practice traps just waiting for the unwary project manager...

Biotech companies testify on data miningmore

Posted Mar 27, 2009 @ 12:19 AM Last update Mar 27, 2009 @ 05:06 PM BOSTON — Drug makers and health insurance officials...

Financial crisis effect on data mining demandmore

Less work reported for US data miners, more for Europeans - KDnuggets Poll

Google Showing Re-Tweets in SERP?more

I just did a search for Matthew Hurst and found an interesting string in the top link snippet: It looks like Google is...

Google's algorithms for human resourcesmore

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is using algorithms to identify employees most likely to leave.

Data Mining Moves to Human Resourcesmore

The chart looks like colorful pop-art doughnuts flying through space. The message, though, is anything but playful.

Data Mining in the Meltdown: the Last, Best Hope? -more

Demand for performance data is skyrocketing within organizations. Arthur Kordon, leader in the data mining and modeling...

UN expert: data mining a threat to human rightsmore

Unfettered collection of personal data by intelligence agencies is a threat to basic human rights, a U.N.

Can Social Network Data Mining Help Us Nab Terrorists?more

...out that the DOD is funding research into this kind of data mining combined with...

Credit card use is ripe for data miningmore

Credit card use is ripe for data mining These days, credit card companies are taking plastic away from a lot of...

When Everyone Can Mine Your Datamore

Everyone Can Mine Your Taylor Buley, 11.21.08, 06:00 PM EST Maltego's open-source software brings data mining to the...

Maltego and the science of "open-source" snoopingmore

Data mining used to be an expensive, somewhat esoteric affair. But , a new 'open-source intelligence' tool, new...

Battle for Mindshare - Analytics vs. Data Miningmore

The term "analytics" has exploded in popularity after the introduction of "Google Analytics" in Dec...

An economic lifeline: Text mining customer experiencemore

The gap between what customers expect and what consumers experience with a firm is often expressed in the text fields...

Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hackmore

seeks insight from IT industry News Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace News US gov't report: Data mining...

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Data Warehousing ETL Checklistmore

ETL – Extract, Transform and Load – is the process by which data from multiple systems is consolidated, typically in a...

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