Poll Results: Data types analyzed

Types of Data Analyzed/Mined in the past 12 months

The top 3 data types were

1. table data (fixed # of columns), 71% (of respondents)
2. time series, 39%
3. itemsets / transactions, 36%

Comparing with a similar 2009 KDnuggets Poll: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined in the past 12 months , we note

Data types with the highest increase in popularity were

1. other , up 61.3%
2. social network data, up 53.9%
3. anonymized data, up 39.3%

Largest decrease in popularity was for

1. text free-form, down 21.2%
2. images / video, down 39.5%
3. music / audio , down 71.7%

Here are full results of KDnuggets Poll: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined in the past 12 months