By Gregory Piatetsky, @kdnuggets.

Ingo Mierswa is a rare combination of a Data Scientist, a CEO, and an extrovert with a sense of humor.

I have enjoyed watching the recent RapidMiner series

5 Minutes With Ingo, where Ingo, usually helped by his friend Unicorn Data Scientist number 7, explains the basics of predictive analytics and data mining in a clear but entertaining style.

The 14 completed videos can be considered as season 1, and there are plans for a more advanced season 2. The average length of 14 videos is actually 7 minutes, but a couple minutes of each video is just playing with unicorns and other pets, so you indeed spend only 5 minutes with Ingo.

As a data scientist myself, I could not resist doing simple statistics on those videos



and the most popular ones are Understanding Support Vector Machines - below and Understanding K Nearest Neighbors Algorithms. Perhaps data scientists people love "Understanding ..." titles or may be those videos had an especially cute visitor? Judge for yourself.



Enjoy!

The Season 1 videos cover these topics

1. Challenges & Opportunities in Analytics
2. Back To The Future
3. Understanding K Nearest Neighbors Algorithms
4. Overfitting & Outliers
5. Calculating Training Errors
6. Cross-Validation
7. Accelerating Analytics
8. Cross Validation in Practice
9. Understanding Support Vector Machines
10. Making Sense of Text Analytics
11. Decision Trees
12. K Means Clustering
13. Removing Uncertain Predictions
14. Naive Bayes

Related:

• Interview: Ingo Mierswa, RapidMiner CEO on “Predaction” and Key Turning Points
• RapidMiner Resources: Educational Videos, Course
• Interview with Rapid-I Ingo Mierswa and Simon Fischer, 2011
• Interview with RapidMiner's Ingo Mierswa, Ralf Klinkenberg, part 1, 2010
• Interview with RapidMiner's Ingo Mierswa, Ralf Klinkenberg, part 2, 2010