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Industries / Fields where you applied Data Mining in 2010? [213 voters]
2010 % of voters    2009 % of voters
CRM/ consumer analytics (57) 26.8%
32.8%
Banking (41) 19.2%
24.4%
Health care/ HR (28) 13.1%
11.7%
Fraud Detection (27) 12.7%
13.9%
Other (25) 11.7%
7.8%
Finance (24) 11.3%
11.1%
Direct Marketing/ Fundraising (24) 11.3%
16.1%
Telecom / Cable (23) 10.8%
14.4%
Insurance (22) 10.3%
10.0%
Science (22) 10.3%
10.6%
Education (21) 9.9%
4.4%
Advertising (21) 9.9%
10.60%
Web usage mining (19) 8.9%
8.3%
Manufacturing (17) 8.%
3.3%
Medical/ Pharma (17) 8.%
7.8%
Retail (17) 8.%
11.7%
Credit Scoring (17) 8.%
15.6%
e-Commerce (15) 7.%
10.0%
Search / Web content mining (14) 6.6%
6.7%
Social Networks (14) 6.6%
7.8%
Government/Military (13) 6.1%
3.9%
Investment / Stocks (12) 5.6%
6.7%
Biotech/Genomics (12) 5.6%
7.8%
Entertainment/ Music (7) 3.3%
1.7%
Security / Anti-terrorism (4) 1.9%
5.0%
Travel / Hospitality (3) 1.4%
2.8%
Junk email / Anti-spam (2) 0.9%
0.6%
Social Policy/Survey analysis (2) 0.9%
1.7%

Comparing with KDnuggets 2009 Poll on Data Mining Applications, we see that the biggest increases from 2009 to 2010, computed as (pct2010 - pct2009)/pct2009 were for these fields

  • Manufacturing 141.9%
  • Education 124.1%
  • Entertainment/ Music 93.3%
  • Government/Military 56.5%

and biggest declines for

  • Social Policy/Survey analysis -44.8%
  • Credit Scoring -48.8%
  • Travel / Hospitality -49.7%
  • Security / Anti-terrorism -62.4%

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