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Data Mining Donald

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So for this reason, I think that Donald is very blog-worthy, and I'm personally very excited at the prospect of having someone with that level of excitement and commitment to data mining looking at the problems I face every day? ok, well, every other day anyway. It's funny isn't it... when somebody's excited about something it's contagious. They get you excited about it too, and I'm psyched about data mining right now.

Donald Farmer: ...

My new role will be Principal Program Manager for the SQL Server Data Mining team. It's not really an up or down move. There's just so much fun to be had with customers and partners where the rubber hits the road. I asked for the move, and it's giving me a thrill to do this.

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BTW, you'll see talking me more often about predictive analytics than about data mining. It's a fine distinction, but for me data mining is more about the techniques, while predictive analytics is more about the business cases and scenarios. I'm not going to be going all deep and academic on the algorithms ? there is an awesome team of smart folks at MS who can do that. They will be marvelous to work with, I'm sure. For myself, I'll be concentrating on how we can change the landscape for BI users.

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