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Subject: Poll Results: Top Data Mining Applications in 2008 and Trends
The previous KDnuggets Poll asked for:
Industries / Fields where you applied Data Mining in 2008.
We compared to
KDnuggets Poll: Data Mining Applications by Industry (June 2007).
The top 2 industries are still CRM and Banking, with Fraud Detection in 3rd place (up from fifth place in 2007).
Industries with the highest increase in the share of respondents are:
- Investment / Stocks, up from 3% of respondents in 2007 to 14% in 2008 (350% increase).
- Finance, up from 7.2% to 16.8% (133% increase)
- Social Policy / Survey analysis, up from 3.6% to 7.5% (108% increase)
- Security / Anti-terrorism , up from 3.6% to 5.6% (56% increase)
- CRM/ consumer analytics, up from 26.1% to 38.3% (47% increase)
There were also two new categories:
- Advertising, 12% share
- Social Networks, 2% share
Industries with the strongest decline in the share of respondents are:
- Web usage mining, down from 10.1% to 7.50% (26% decrease)
- Direct Marketing/ Fundraising, down from 20.30% to 14.00% ( 31% decrease)
- Entertainment/ Music, down from 4.30% to 2.80% ( 35% decrease)
- Science, down from 18.80% to 10.30% ( 45% decrease)
- Government/Military, down from 7.20% to 3.70% ( 49% decrease)
Here are the full results of
KDnuggets Poll: Industries / Fields where you applied Data Mining in 2008.
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