Features

The previous KDnuggets Poll asked
What Types of Data You Analyzed / Mined in the past 12 months?

Over 70% of respondents worked on table data (fixed # of columns), with 34% chose time series.

Here are full results of 2006 KDnuggets Poll on

Types of Data Analyzed / Mined.

Compared to 2005 KDnuggets Poll on

Types of data you analyzed/mined in last 12 months,

the biggest increase was in anonymized data - from 11% to 25% of respondents (indicating increasing importance of privacy issues).

There was a small decline in percentage analyzing table data (from 82% to 71%), but it still remained the leading data type.

Suprisingly, fewer people were analyzing the web:

• web content percentage dropped from 15% in 2005 to 5.7% in 2006
• web clickstream percentage dropped from 17% in 2005 to 8.5% in 2006.