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Data types analyzed/mined in the past 12 months [206 voters total] | |
| table data (fixed n. columns) (143) |  69.4% |
| time series (86) | 41.7% |
| itemsets / transactions (67) | 32.5% |
| text (free-form) (53) | 25.7% |
| anonymized data (45) | 21.8% |
| location/geo/mobile data (40) | 19.4% |
| other (29) | 14.1% |
| social network data (26) | 12.6% |
| email (22) | 10.7% |
| web content (21) | 10.2% |
| web clickstream (18) | 8.7% |
| images / video (14) | 6.8% |
| XML data (10) | 4.9% |
| music / audio (7) | 3.4% |
Gregory PS, Editor:
Compared to 2010 KDnuggets Poll: Data types analyzed/mined , this poll had 43% more respondents.
Data types that most increased in popularity by share of respondents were
- location/geo/mobile data: 19.4% share in 2011 (not asked in 2010)
- music / audio: up 63%
- time series: up 7%
Data types that most decreased in popularity were
- XML data: down 59%
- social network data: down 35% (surprisingly)
- web content: down 23%
- US/Canada, 38.8%
- Europe, 35.4%
- Asia, 13.1%
- Latin America, 5.3%
- Africa/Middle East, 4.4%
- Australia/NZ, 2.9%