It’s important to stay in touch with what’s happening in your area of research and also those related to your area. If you have time it’s also nice to dip into the sort of thing you would normally have nothing to do with like graphics in my case for example. It’s good because[...]
Posts Tagged ‘data mining;’
May 23rd, 2009 - 6:26 pm § in Information/text analysis
Shiny new dataset
I thought I would do a little dance a give a little w00t for the new data repository that we now have access to. All researchers will be delighted to know that you can now access raw data from the Data.gov repository. I’m also pleased because we can suggest new datasets which means this has [.[...]
April 30th, 2009 - 6:38 pm § in Tutorials
Text Mining tutorial
This is a fantastic presentation which takes you through all sorts of commonly used algorithms in text mining and for processing web data. Concepts and methods from machine learning are presented and there’s even some little stick men, so it’s gotta be good. Who is this for? Those of you[...]
February 17th, 2009 - 11:58 am § in Website analytics/metrics
Classifying individual users w. web analytics
Today’s paper is all about website visitors and how to get the most out of the data you collect. A good example of what to look for and what can be identified is presented by Bruno Goncalves and Jose J. Ramasco who wrote a paper called “Towards the characterization of individual users[...]
December 9th, 2008 - 9:04 pm § in Uncategorized
The importance of Datamining
Data mining is also called knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). Data mining is the extraction of useful patterns and relationships from data sources, such as databases, texts, the web… It has nothing to do however with SQL, OLAP, data warehousing or any of that kind of thing. It uses [...]
