Publications

Onlamp.com, by Paul Meagher, 01/06/2005

Information theory (IT) is a foundational subject for computer scientists, engineers, statisticians, data miners, biologists, and cognitive scientists. Unfortunately, PHP currently lacks software tools that would make it easy to explore and/or use IT concepts and methods to solve data analytic problems. This two-part series aims to remedy this situation by:

1. Introducing you to foundational information theory concepts. 2. Implementing these foundational concepts as classes using PHP and SQL. 3. Using these classes to mine web data.

Here is the rest of the story.

Here is Calculating Entropy for Data Miner, part 2.