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Subject: Poll Results: Data Mining Methods Used

The previous KDnuggets Poll asked:
Data mining/analytic methods you used frequently in the past 12 months?

The top 3 methods are the traditional popular ones:

  • Decision Trees/Rules, used by 63% of respondents
  • Regression (51%), and
  • Clustering (50%)
The average number of methods per voter was 4.1, significantly higher than 3.2 in 2006. In comparison with 2006, more data miners are using the classics methods of decision trees/rules and regression.

However, the highest growth was in use of other methods (see some mentioned above), Genetic algorithms, Boosting, Visualization, Hybrid methods, and Bagging.

The methods that suffered relative declines in popularity were SVM and Association Rules.

Here are the results of

KDnuggets 2007 Poll: Data mining/analytic methods you used frequently in the past 12 months?

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