Date: 23 Jul 1999 16:26:27 -0400 From: Tom Fawcett fawcett@Basit.COM Subject: Data mining and Perl Hi. Recently, a member of the Perl community asked me about the use of Perl in data mining. He's considering proposing a KDD tutorial. I use Perl extensively in our data mining work here at Bell Atlantic, but I don't know how many other groups use it. I've heard it mentioned informally, but programming languages are generally regarded as uninteresting details of data mining work and aren't discussed very much. So I'm curious how many other people use Perl. If you use it in any aspect of data mining I'd like to hear from you. Please send me an email message with as much (or as little) information as you like. (As for our group, we use Perl for parsing, data cleaning, experiment control and general data transformation---everything but the induction algorithms themselves. It's very good for fast prototyping, and it has an extensive module library for communicating with the Internet and with databases.) Regards, -Tom (fawcett@basit.com)
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