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Subject: Data Mining / Analytic Blog highlights

Data Mining: Does It Get Any Better Than This?, Will Dwinnell

The article Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs appeared in the Jan-26-2009 issue of The Wall Street Journal, listing the top 3 "best" jobs (of 200 studied) as: 1. Mathematician 2. Actuary 3. Statistician
I assume that "data miner" fits in somewhere among these, yipee!

Strings are not Meanings, on article by Google researchers "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data".

Semantic interpretation and the effectiveness of big data, Greg Linden comments on the same article

Twitter Analytics for "Analytics", Juice analytics.

Twitter�s wild popularity hasn�t obscured the fact that the service needs to eventually make money. The concept of "Twitter analytics" as a revenue stream has come up often enough to make my ears itch and my nose burn.

Mathematical-Tools-For-Data-Mining, (e-book, free download), by Dan A. Simovici, Chabane Djeraba

The maturing of the field of data mining has brought about an increased level of mathematical sophistication. Such disciplines like topology, combinatorics, partially ordered sets and their associated algebraic structures (lattices and Boolean algebras), and metric spaces are increasingly applied in data mining research. This book presents these mathematical foundations of data mining integrated with applications to provide the reader with a comprehensive reference.

How many software packages is too much?

we found out that a particular client is using THREE Data Mining softwares. Not statistical softwares or the base versions, but the complete, very expensive Data Mining softwares - SAS EM, SPSS Clementine and KXEN.

The Anderson Analytics Facebook Application in Advertising Age


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