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Search Trends: Data Mining, Text Mining
The total number of searches for 'data mining' and 'visualization' is decreasing over time, while 'social media' and 'text mining' are increasing or staying constant.

Grading the Forecasts of "Experts", by WSJ Numbers Guy.
A new study adds to the body of numerical evidence that forecasting "experts" don�t do much better than novices or guessing.

Interesting real-world example of Simpson's Paradox, Abbott analytics.
... there are disproportionate population sizes with quite disparate results

Databases and VLDW: Petabyte Scalability, Dan Linstedt,
Terabyte (50+) to Petabyte levels

Actively learning to rank,
Filip Radlinski and Thorsten Joachims paper at KDD 2007, "Active Exploration for Learning Rankings from Clickthrough Data" ...

Data mining for the masses, Swivel