Poll Results: Where did you apply data mining in 2010?

Top 2 industries remained CRM/consumer analytics & Banking, but Health Care moved from 7th to 3rd position, and Fraud Detection moved from 6th to 4th position. Manufacturing and Education saw largest gains.

The previous KDnuggets Poll asked:

In which Industries / Fields you applied Data Mining in 2010?

The top 2 industries remained CRM/ consumer analytics and Banking, but Health Care moved from 7th to 3rd position, and Fraud Detection moved from 6th to 4th position.

Direct Marketing/ Fundraising dropped from 3rd to 6th position.

Comparing with KDnuggets 2009 Poll on Data Mining Applications, we see that the biggest increases from 2009 to 2010, computed as (pct2010 - pct2009)/pct2009 were for these fields

Manufacturing 141.9%
Education 124.1%
Entertainment/ Music 93.3%
Government/Military 56.5%

and biggest declines for

Social Policy/Survey analysis -44.8%
Credit Scoring -48.8%
Travel / Hospitality -49.7%
Security / Anti-terrorism -62.4%