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• Big Data Strategy: Datafication

  Datafication of everything enables new ways of creating value and becoming more competitive. Oracle Big Data Strategist Paul Sonderegger explains.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/big-data-strategy-datafication.html

• OpenNN, An Open Source Library For Neural Networks

  OpenNN is an open source class library written in C++ which implements neural networks, and runs on Windows, Apple, or Linux.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/opennn-open-source-library-neural-networks.html

• Interview: Kirk Borne, Data Scientist, GMU on Big Data in Astrophysics and Correlation vs. Causality

  We discuss how to build the best data models, significance of correlation and causality in Predictive Analytics, and impact of Big Data on Astrophysics.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/interview-kirk-borne-big-data-astrophysics-correlation-causality.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n14, Jun 10

  Features (8) | Software (3) | Opinions (14) | News (6) | Webcasts (3) | Courses (1) | Meetings and Reports (9) | Jobs (6) Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n14.html

• Vowpal Wabbit: Fast Learning on Big Data

  Vowpal Wabbit is a fast out-of-core machine learning system, which can learn from huge, terascale datasets faster than any other current algorithm. We also explain the cute name.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/vowpal-wabbit-fast-learning-on-big-data.html

• Where to Learn Deep Learning – Courses, Tutorials, Software

  Deep Learning is a very hot Machine Learning techniques which has been achieving remarkable results recently. We give a list of free resources for learning and using Deep Learning.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/learn-deep-learning-courses-tutorials-overviews.html

• Interview: Richard Wendell, VP, Data Science, TE Connectivity on Strategy for Analytics Projects

  We discuss the last mile of the execution path of Analytics projects, five critical pillars of success and data-driven decision making through advanced analytics.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/interview-richard-wendell-te-connectivity-analytics-projects.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n13, May 28

  Features (5) | Software (3) | Opinions (5) | News (1) | Webcasts (1) | Courses (1) | Meetings and Reports (3) | Jobs (5) Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n13.html

• Stacking the Deck: The Next Wave of Opportunity in Big Data

  A leading venture capitalist explains why Big Data infrastructure market is mostly mature and where lies the next big area of opportunities related to Big Data.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/stacking-deck-next-wave-opportunity-big-data.html

• Exclusive: Tamr at the New Frontier of Big Data Curation

  Our exclusive profile of Tamr (former Data Tamer), the latest startup from legendary Michael Stonebraker, which emerged from stealth mode to address the new field of Big Data Curation.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/tamr-new-frontier-big-data-curation.html

• Poll Results: Data Types/Sources Analyzed

  Trends in data sources for data mining include: table data dominates, followed by time series and text; audio, JSON grows in popularity, while itemsets decline; 70% access DB engines, but only 20% access NoSQL stores; Hadoop, MongoDB used more for text; Europe is lagging in NoSQL usage.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/poll-results-data-types-sources-analyzed.html

• Predict Soccer World Cup 2014 Winner, Get Prizes from RapidMiner

  Use a free edition of RapidMiner to have fun and bring sports predictions to another level by making a prediction of Soccer (Futbol) World Cup 2014, which starts on June 12 in Brazil.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/predict-world-cup-2014-winner-rapidminer-contest.html

• Big Data Landscape, v 3.0, analyzed

  We analyze the Big Data Landscape and identify the most popular market segments in Analytics, Infrastructure, Applications, Open Source, and Data Sources categories. It is still early - only 4.5% of companies had exits.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/big-data-landscape-v30-analyzed.html

• Guide to Data Science Cheat Sheets

  Selection of the most useful Data Science cheat sheets, covering SQL, Python (including NumPy, SciPy and Pandas), R (including Regression, Time Series, Data Mining), MATLAB, and more.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/guide-to-data-science-cheat-sheets.html

• Cartoon: Data Visualization meets 3-D Printer

  New KDnuggets Cartoon looks at what happens when Data Visualization meets 3-D Printer.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/cartoon-data-visualization-3d-printer.html

• Did Target Really Predict a Teen’s Pregnancy? The Inside Story

  We examine the origin and the facts behind this explosive story, the importance of headlines, and how unsubstantiated assumptions gain traction and mainstream attention and help create myths around Predictive Analytics.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/target-predict-teen-pregnancy-inside-story.html

• JMP White Paper: Advantages of Bootstrap Forest for Yield Analysis

  This white paper highlights practical examples on how to use partitioning techniques for semiconductor manufacturing data. These methods also have wider applicability.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/jmp-white-paper-advantages-bootstrap-forest-yield-analysis.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n12, May 21

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  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n12.html

• Poincare Conjecture, Perelman way, and Topology of social networks

  We examine the connections between the $1 million proof of Poincare conjecture by a reclusive math genius and the topological behavior and information diffusion over social networks.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/poincare-conjecture-perelman-topology-social-networks.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n11, May 7

  Features (7) | Opinions (5) | Software (1) | News (3) | Webcasts (4) | Meetings (2) | Jobs (6) | Publications (1) | Tweets Read more »

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• KDnuggets™ News 14:n10, Apr 30

  Features (9) | Opinions (5) | Software (3) | News (6) | Webcasts (1) | Courses (3) | Meetings (4) | Jobs (10) | Academic Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n10.html

• Cartoon: Data Scientist Salary Negotiation

  New KDnuggets Cartoon looks at Data Scientist Salary Negotiation situation.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/04/cartoon-data-scientist-salary-negotiation.html

• 9 Free Books for Learning Data Mining and Data Analysis

  Whether you are learning data science for the first time or refreshing your memory or catching up on latest trends, these free books will help you excel through self-study.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/04/9-free-books-learning-data-mining-data-analysis.html

• New Book: Social Media Mining – free PDF download

  Social Media Mining integrates social media, social network analysis, and data mining to enable students, practitioners, researchers, and managers to understand the basics and potentials of this field.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/04/book-social-media-mining-free-download.html

• Elusive Data Scientists Driving High Salaries

  Recent study tracks experience, salary, industry and location of Data scientists, finds they are earning base salaries over $200K. Download free report.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/04/elusive-data-scientists-driving-high-salaries.html

• Interactive Big Data Timeline

  A very interesting interactive Big Data timeline takes you from the beginning of information overload in 1880s to Business Intelligence, World Wide Web, Hadoop, Cloud, and more.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/04/interactive-big-data-timeline.html

• Employee Churn 201: Calculating Employee Value

  Much has been written about customer churn. This post examines employee churn - an equally important problem and its unique dynamics.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/04/employee-churn-201-calculating-employee-value.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n09, Apr 16

  Features (6) | Opinions (4) | Software (2) | News (6) | Webcasts (2) | Courses (4) | Meetings (3) | Jobs (9) | Academic Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n09.html

• Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice

  Candid advice from an industry veteran reveals the true picture behind the much-talked-about Data Scientist "glamour" and helps people have the right expectations for a Data Science career.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/data-scientist-right-career-path-candid-advice.html

• Fractal Analytics Interview Highlights

  Fractal Analytics CEO on starting the company, competing with the best, managing attrition, attributes he looks for when hiring, 4 different analytics career tracks, strategic bets, and advice for starting data scientists.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/fractal-analytics-interview-highlights.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n08, Apr 3

  Features (4) | Opinions (4) | News (5) | Webcasts (3) | Meetings (1) | Jobs (4) | Publications (4) | Tweets (4) | CFP Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n08.html

• Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms – view report

  Pioneering predictive analytics vendor RapidMiner was positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the first "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms" - view the full report.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/rapidminer-leader-gartner-2014-magic-quadrant-advanced-analytics-platforms.html

• Data Scientists Salary Survey: US, Canada, Australia lead

  Data Scientists Salary Survey shows that industry data scientists are in a sweet spot, especially in US, Canada, and Australia, with average salary $135K. European and Asian data scientists salaries are significantly lower.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/data-scientists-salary-survey-us-canada-australia-lead.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n07, Mar 26

  Features (3) | Opinions (3) | Software (2) | News (3) | Webcasts (2) | Courses (1) | Meetings (3) | Jobs (5) | Academic Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n07.html

• Machine Learning in 7 Pictures

  Basic machine learning concepts of Bias vs Variance Tradeoff, Avoiding overfitting, Bayesian inference and Occam razor, Feature combination, Non-linear basis functions, and more - explained via pictures.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/machine-learning-7-pictures.html

• Evolution of Fraud Analytics – An Inside Story

  The amazing analytic innovations in payment fraud prevention can be grouped into three major categories: large data-set modeling, sparse data-set modeling, and false-positive reductions - a view from the inside.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/evolution-fraud-analytics-inside-story.html

• How Many Data Scientists are out there?

  We examine indeed, LinkedIn, Kaggle, and other sources to investigate how many data scientists - in name and in function - are out there, and how strong is the demand.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/how-many-data-scientists-are-there.html

• Introduction to Random Forests® for Beginners – free ebook

  Random Forests is of the most powerful and successful machine learning techniques. This free ebook will help beginners to leverage the power of Random Forests.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/introduction-random-forests-free-ebook.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n06, Mar 19

  Features (11) | News (3) | Software (6) | Webcasts (3) | Courses (5) | Competitions (3) | Meetings (6) | Jobs (3) | Academic Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n06.html

• The Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mining

  Leading data mining and analytics experts give their favorite do's and don'ts, from "Do plan for data to be messy" to "Do not underestimate the power of a simpler-to-understand solution".

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/data-mining-do-and-dont.html

• 10 Most Influential Analytics Leaders in India

  Analytics India Magazine’s annual ranking of the 10 Most Influential Analytics Leaders in India, in terms of Impact, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Analytics evangelism.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/10-most-influential-analytics-leaders-india.html

• SAS, IBM, RapidMiner, Knime leaders in Gartner MQ for Advanced Analytics Platforms

  Gartner new Magic Quadrant(tm) for Advanced Analytics Platforms names 4 companies as leaders: SAS, IBM, RapidMiner, and Knime. A copy of the report, with evaluations for 15 more companies, is available thanks to RapidMiner.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/gartner-mq-for-advanced-analytics-platforms.html

• Qualitative Analytics: Why numbers do not tell the complete story?

  Data scientists love numbers, yet not all data is numerical. Qualitative analytics should not be ignored, especially given the unique value it provides.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/qualitative-analysis-why-numbers-dont-tell-complete-story.html

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Part 2 of the Interview with Yann LeCun

  We discuss how far AI is likely to go, how Data Science to Statistics is like Computer Science was to Math, Big Data hype and reality, and advice to beginning Data Scientists.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/exclusive-yann-lecun-deep-learning-facebook-ai-lab-part2.html

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Yann LeCun, Deep Learning Expert, Director of Facebook AI Lab

  We discuss what enabled Deep Learning to achieve remarkable successes recently, his argument with Vapnik about (deep) neural nets vs kernel (support vector) machines, and what kind of AI can we expect from Facebook.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/exclusive-yann-lecun-deep-learning-facebook-ai-lab.html

• Alpine Data Science Periodic Table

  One of the most clever giveaways at the recent Strata Conference in Santa Clara was a Periodic Table of Data Science from Alpine.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/alpine-data-science-periodic-table.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n05, Mar 5

  Features (10) | News (6) | Software (5) | Webcasts (1) | Courses (6) | Meetings (5) | Jobs (7) | Academic (1) | Publications Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n05.html

• Anaconda: Free enterprise-ready Python for Big data, Predictive Analytics

  125+ cross-platform tested and optimized Python packages for advanced analytics totally free, even for commercial use.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/anaconda-free-enterprise-ready-python-big-data-predictive-analytics.html

• One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R

  A collection of useful one-page resources for a data miner, data scientist, and/or a decision scientist. The modules include code, lectures, and one-page recipes for getting things done.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/one-page-r-survival-guide-data-science-with-r.html

• Cartoon: Data Scientist Valentine Day Prediction

  New KDnuggets cartoon looks at a Data Scientist Valentine's Day prediction.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/cartoon-data-scientist-valentine-day-prediction.html

• Book: Mining of Massive Datasets, 2nd Edition, free download

  The second edition of this landmark book adds Jure Leskovec as a coauthor and has 3 new chapters, on mining large graphs, dimensionality reduction, and machine learning. You can still freely download a PDF version.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/book-mining-massive-datasets-2nd-edition-free-download.html

• 3 Ways to Test the Accuracy of Your Predictive Models

  3 different methods for testing accuracy of predictive models from 3 leading analytics experts - Karl Rexer, John Elder, and Dean Abbott explain using lift charts, randomization testing, and bootstrap sampling.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/3-ways-to-test-accuracy-your-predictive-models.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n04, Feb 19

  Features (7) | News (10) | Software (2) | Webcasts (2) | Courses (2) | Meetings (2) | Jobs (10) | Academic (4) | Publications Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n04.html

• 10 Emerging Analytics Startups in India

  India is becoming a powerhouse in Analytics, and here are 10 emerging Indian Analytics startups to watch in 2014: Crayon Data, Flutura, Axtria, Flytxt, Sapience Analytics, SIBIA Analytics, Ideal Analytics, FORMCEPT, IQR Consulting, and StatLabs.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/10-emerging-analytics-startups-india.html

• Deep Learning Wins Dogs vs Cats competition on Kaggle

  A Deep learning expert wins Kaggle Dogs vs Cats image competition with an almost perfect result.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/deep-learning-wins-dogs-vs-cats-competition.html

• CMSR Data Miner and Rule-Engine Software Suite – free academic use

  CMSR - Cramer Modeling, Segmentation and Rules - is data miner and rule-engine suite having rule-engines as a unique feature. Rule-engines provide rule-based predictive model evaluation.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/cmsr-data-miner-rule-engine-software-suite-free-academic-use.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n03, Feb 5

  Features (9) | Software (4) | Webcasts (2) | Courses, Events (9) | Meetings (3) | Jobs (9) | Academic (3) | Competitions (1) | Publications (7) | Tweets (7) | NewsBriefs (3) | CFP (14) | Quote Features Top Trends in Analytics and Big Data ahead of Strata 2014 Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n03.html

• More Data Mining with Weka

  This online course teaches both principles and practical data mining techniques, lets students work on very big datasets, classify text, experiment with clustering, and much more.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/more-data-mining-weka.html

• Determining the Value of Insights

  With the value of Consumer Insights being questioned to justify ROI, the Market Research professionals need to figure out ways to quantify the value of those insights. Determining the value of insights is no easy task and requires focus on three key components.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/determining-value-insights.html

• Viewpoint: Why your company should NOT use “Big Data”

  Hardcore analytics (and Big Data) can add value, but only marginally and only for companies that have already mastered using the data they already have. The ‘obvious’ information from your own data can get you 90%+ of the total impact, so start there. The hard part is executing the basic insights across the organization.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/viewpoint-why-your-company-should-not-use-big-data.html

• Using Data Mining to Predict the Winter Olympics Medal Counts in Sochi

  Could data mining techniques accurately predict the medal counts at the Olympics? A predictive model could give us an estimate of the number of medals each nation might win; but how close could we get to the actual outcomes? It was a tantalizing project …

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/data-mining-predict-sochi-winter-olympics-medal-counts.html

• News

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• Split on Data Science Skills: Individual vs Team Approach

  The results of latest KDnuggets poll show an almost equal split between those who favor individual and those who favor the team approach. See the counterintuitive regional differences and interesting comments.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/split-on-data-science-skills-individual-vs-team-approach.html

• PAN Competition: Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, Author Profiling

  Take part in one of 3 tasks: Plagiarism Detection - given a document, is it an original? Author Identification - given a document, who wrote it? Author Profiling - given a document, what is author age / gender?

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/pan-competition-plagiarism-detection-author-identification-author-profiling.html

• Interpreting Model Performance with Cost Functions

  Cost functions are critical for the correct assessment of performance of data mining and predictive models. This series goes deep into the statistical properties and mathematical understanding of each cost function and explores their similarities and differences.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/salford-interpreting-model-performance-with-cost-functions.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n02, Jan 22

  Features (10) | Software (3) | Webcasts (2) | Courses, Events (5) | Meetings (3) | Jobs (11) | Academic (3) | Competitions (1) | Publications Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n02.html

• MADlib: Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists

  MADlib is open source with commercially usable BSD license; supports Postgres and Pivotal Greenplum DBMS, and provides classification, regression, clustering, topic modeling and other analytics for Big Data.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/madlib-big-data-machine-learning-sql-for-data-scientists.html

• 2014 Jan Publications: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science

  All (69) | News, Software (19) | Courses, Events (20) | Publications (15) Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 17-19: Learning from Data: Caltech free online course; Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/publications-old.html

• 2014 Jan: Courses and Events: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science

  All (69) | News, Software (19) | Courses, Events (20) | Publications (15) JMP Analytically Speaking Webcasts: Rob Reul (Jan 29), Michael Schrage (Feb 12) Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/courses-events-old.html

• 2014 Jan: Features, News, Software: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

  All (69) | News, Software (19) | Courses, Events (19) | Publications (15) Split on Data Science Skills: Individual vs Team approach ( comments) - Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/news-software-old.html

• 2014: Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science News

  Latest News | Top Stories News for Dec | Nov | Oct | Sep | Aug | Jul | Jun | May | Apr | Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/index.html

• 2014 Jan: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science News

  All (84) | News, Software (26) | Courses, Events (30) | Publications (15) | Top Tweets (13)   AltaPlana 2014 Text Analytics Market Study - Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/01/index-old.html

• Unicorn Data Scientists vs Data Science Teams

  A recent post has generated an intense discussion about finding "unicorn" data scientists with a combination of all the needed skills, or whether that skillset is best filled by a team. Here are the highlights, including a proposal how to train well-rounded data scientists.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/unicorn-data-scientists-vs-data-science-teams-discussion.html

• Top stories for Dec 22-29: Data Mining Applications with R; “Data Scientist” catches up with “Statistician”

  Data Mining Applications with R; "Data Scientist" catches up with "Statistician", surpasses "Data Miner"; What is Wrong with the Definition of Data Science.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/top-news-week-Dec-22.html

• Top Datasets on Reddit

  Most popular dataset posts on Reddit include NFL Game Metadata, Reddit top 2.5 Million posts, Zillow housing prices, and, of course, a database of cat pictures.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/top-datasets-on-reddit.html

• KDnuggets™ News 14:n01, Jan 8

  coming on Jan 8

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/n01.html

• KDnuggets Resources for Analytics and Data Mining

  The entire KDnuggets.com website is devoted to Data Mining and related topics. See site map and pages for: KDnuggets News, the leading newsletter on Data Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/kdnuggets-data-mining.html

• 2013 Dec Publications: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science

  All (95) | News, Software (27) | Courses, Events (12) | Jobs | Academic | Publications (38) Unicorn Data Scientists vs Data Science Teams - Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/publications.html

• 2013 Dec Courses and Events: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science

  All (95) | News, Software (27) | Courses, Events (12) | Jobs | Academic | Publications (38) Replay: What Lies Ahead for Big Data and Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/courses-events.html

• 2013 Dec News: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science Features, News, and Software

  All (95) | News, Software (27) | Courses, Events (12) | Jobs | Academic | Publications (38) Top stories for Dec 22-29: Data Mining Applications Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/news-software.html

• 2013 Dec: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science News

  All (95) | News, Software (27) | Courses, Events (12) | Jobs | Academic | Publications (38) Unicorn Data Scientists vs Data Science Teams - Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/index.html

• What is Wrong with the Definition of Data Science

  A veteran statistician argues that 3 different areas usually included in "Data Science" require dramatically different, skills, education, and training with very little overlap.

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/what-is-wrong-with-definition-data-science.html

• Forums

  KDnuggets Forums have been discontinued, but we invite you to join the discussion on KDnuggets Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science LinkedIn group. Also, you Read more »

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• Where to start with Data Mining and Data Science

  Gregory Piatetsky answer: You can best learn data mining and data science by doing, so start analyzing data as soon as you can! However, don't Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/learning-data-mining-data-science.html

• Web Analytics and Social Media Analytics Software

  Including web log analyzers and web usage mining software   Web Analytics & Social Media Analytics Software: commercial AlterWind Log Analyzer Professional, website statistics package Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/web-analytics.html

• Data Visualization Software

  Visualization sites | commercial software | free software Data360, a site where you can find, present and share data; created to provide clear context on Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html

• Statistics Software

  commercial | free Analyse-it!, accurate low-cost statistical software for Microsoft Excel. Appricon's Analysis Studio, a statistical analysis and modeling software with advanced logistic regression modeling, Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/statistics.html

• Graph and Social Network Analysis, Link Analysis, and Visualization

  commercial software | sites | free software AdvancedMiner Social Network Analysis (SNA), models social relationships among persons, designed to enhance the available customer information with Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/social-network-analysis.html

• Clustering and Segmentation Software

  Commercial Clustering Software BayesiaLab, includes Bayesian classification algorithms for data segmentation and uses Bayesian networks to automatically cluster the variables. ClustanGraphics3, hierarchical cluster analysis from Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/clustering.html

• Software for Analysis of Classification

  Analyse-it, Method evaluation & validation software for Excel. Includes ROC curves, method comparison, NCCLS imprecision, reference ranges, and NCCLS linearity. Free 30-day trial. Losswise provides Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/classification-analysis.html

• Genetic Programming, Rough Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and other classification software

  commercial: BLIASoft Knowledge Discovery software, for building models from data based mainly on fuzzy logic. Datalogic, professional tool for knowledge acquisition, classification, predictive modelling based Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/classification-other.html

• Web Searching Software

  Digital Information Gateway (DIG), an advanced information sharing and retrieval solution for searching database servers, documents, web pages, and e-mail servers from a common user Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/web-searching.html

• Web Content Mining, Screen Scraping, Data Extraction

  commercial | free and open source AMI Enterprise Intelligence searches, collects, stores and analyses data from the web. Astera ReportMiner is an end-to-end no-code data Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/web-content-mining.html

• Sequential Patterns and Time Series Software

  EidoSearch software for time-series analysis: highlight any data pattern that interests you and EidoSearch software finds all similar patterns from the past and present, analyzes Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/sequence.html

• Software for Recommendations

  Aggregate Knowledge, creates automated behavior recommendations for websites, offering Discovery for Retail, Discovery for Media and the Collective Discovery Network. San Mateo, CA. ChoiceStream, deliver Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/recommendations.html

• Libraries and Development Kits for Data Mining

  commercial: | free and open-source AC2 (from Isoft), a set of libraries for building data mining solutions on the server side. Analytics1305 Machine Learning Library, Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/libraries.html

• Estimation and Forecasting Software

  commercial: | free 11Ants Model Builder, upgrades Microsoft Excel into a powerful, simple to use data mining / predictive analytics tool, with regression, classification and Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/estimation.html

• Anomaly Detection, Deviation and Fraud Detection Software

  Anodot provides real-time analytics and automated anomaly-detection systems to find outliers in Big Data and transform them into valuable business insights. Delta Miner, integrates new Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/deviation.html

• Data Transformation, Data Cleaning, Data Cleansing Software

  Ab Initio, provides high-performance software library and graphical environment for data transformation AMADEA, data Extraction, Transformation, and Real Time Reporting software AnalyticsCanvas, helps automate Google Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/data-cleaning.html

• Software for Audio and Video Mining

  BurgSys, offers software products for image mining, audio analysis and video analysis. CallMiner speech analytics solution listens to recorded conversations to uncover trends in agent/customer Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/audio-video-mining.html

• Software for Associations Discovery

  Associations Software: commercial Azmy SuperQuery, includes association rule finder. IBM SPSS Modeler Suite, includes market basket analysis. LPA Data Mining Toolkit supports the discovery of Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/associations.html

• Software for Intelligent Agents and Bots

  Artificial Life, develops, markets and supports intelligent robots for the Internet. Autonomy provides bayesian-based infrastructure for user profiling, aggregation, categorization, and personalization of unstructured information. Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/agents-bots.html

• Web Mining and Web Usage Mining Software

  Web Mining Software: commercial | free, open-source 11Ants Model Builder, mine your web usage data in Excel. Powerful but simple to use data mining tool. Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/software/web-mining.html

• What is Data Mining?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: Data Mining is the process of finding new and potentially useful knowledge from data. A simpler definition is: Data Mining is the Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/what-is-data-mining.html

• Are there programming frameworks for web content mining?

  Bing Liu answers: Although many Web content mining problems have the same framework of extraction and integration, the current techniques for dealing with them are Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/web-mining-frameworks.html

• Are there open-source implementations of stochastic gradient boosting algorithm

  described in Friedman, Jerome H. (1999a). Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine. Technical report, Dept. of Statistics, Stanford University. Friedman, Jerome H. (1999b). Stochastic Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/stochastic-gradient-boosting.html

• What software is available for data mining?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: There are many commercial and open-source packages (see KDnuggets: Software). Software suites are most popular. They generally offer many methods, including classification, Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/software-for-data-mining.html

• What are some data mining case studies that use simple data mining algorithms?

  A. Bitukov answers: Xiaohua Hu wrote excellent case study. It was published in Journal of Applied Intelligence, A Data Mining Approach for Retailing Bank Customer Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/simple-data-mining-case-study.html

• Predictive Analytics and Information Retrieval (IR) – how do they differ?

  Tilmann Bruckhaus answers: Information RetrievalPredictive AnalyticsGeneral PurposeMulti-database, open-ended researchPrediction, classification and scoringScope of ResultsWideNarrowType of ResultsEntire Documents from various sources, such as internal databases, document Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/predictive-analytics-vs-information-retrieval.html

• How Are Precision and Recall Calculated?

  Tilmann Bruckhaus answers: Calculating precision and recall is actually quite easy. Imagine there are 100 positive cases among 10,000 cases. You want to predict which Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/precision-recall.html

• What is PMML?

  Alex Guazzelli (VP, Analytics at Zementis), answers: PMML stands for "Predictive Model Markup Language". It is the de facto standard to represent predictive solutions. A Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/pmml.html

• Job Titles in Data Mining

  J. Castelli asks, In building a Data Analysis Team, I am struggling to accurately title job positions. I have persons that will know how to Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/job-titles-in-data-mining.html

• Is Data Mining a Science?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: Data mining is not a theoretical science like physics, but more a combination of applied engineering and skill, somewhat like psychology. Data Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/is-data-mining-a-science.html

• FAQ on Analytics, Data Mining, and Knowledge Discovery

  Data Mining is the process of finding new and potentially useful knowledge from data. The entire KDnuggets.com website is devoted to Data Mining and related Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/index.html

• In-database Data Mining advantages/differences compared to compared to data mining done on a flat file extracted from the database/data warehouse?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: Oracle, a vendor of in-database data mining, gives these advantages: eliminates data movement, speeds data mining, simplifies model deployment, and delivers security Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/in-database-data-mining.html

• Golden Rules for Data Mining

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: Focus on what is actionable. Prepare and clean the data carefully. Verify data analysis steps. Use multiple data mining and machine learning Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/golden-rules-data-mining.html

• Difference between Data Mining and Statistics

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro: Statistics is at the core of data mining - helping to distinguish between random noise and significant findings, and providing a theory for Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/difference-data-mining-statistics.html

• Where can I find good datasets for data mining?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: There are many good datasets at UCI repository - see kdd.ics.uci.edu See also KDnuggets datasets page at www.kdnuggets.com/datasets and this discussion Free Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/datasets-for-data-mining.html

• Are There Data Mining Tool Comparisons?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: I maintain a comprehensive list of data mining tools / software at www.kdnuggets.com/software/. I have been running annual polls on Data Mining Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/data-mining-tool-comparison.html

• What is the difference between classification and prediction?

  If one does a decision tree analysis, what is the result? A classification? A prediction? Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: The decision tree is a classification model, Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/classification-vs-prediction.html

• What is a good description of C4.5 Decision tree algorithm?

  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro answers: The best description is in R. Quinlan book C4.5: programs for machine learning, ISBN:1-55860-238-0, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. See also Ross Quinlan personal Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/faq/c45-algorithm.html

• Twitter sites and feeds
  on Analytics and Data Mining

  KDnuggets on Twitter, updates on data mining and analytics from Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets Editor Dean Abbott (@deanabb), Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Consultant, San Diego, Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/twitter-analytics-data-mining.html

• Text Mining and Web Mining pages

  Seth Grimes Breakthrough Analysis column for Intelligent Enterprise, mainly on Text Analytics. Text Analytics News, News, analysis & Events for the Text Analytics Industry. Text Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/text-mining.html

• Statistics Sites

  American Statistical Association, a scientific and educational society founded in 1839 to foster excellence in the use and application of statistics to the biological, physical, Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/statistics.html

• Standards and Industry Associations for Data Mining, Analytics, and Knowledge Discovery

  ACM SIGMOD, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data -- database research, publications, meetings and more. ACM SIGKDD, the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/standards.html

• Societies and Groups for Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, and Knowledge Discovery

  SIGKDD, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining is the leading professional society for Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Data Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/societies.html

• Social Networks for Data Mining, Analytics, Web Mining, and Text Mining

  Data Mining and Analytic Groups - Independent Analytic Bridge, created by Vincent Granville. Data Mining group, created by Omar Foudal. NYC Predictive Analytics Meetup, A Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/social-networks.html

• Privacy Protection and Information Sites

  EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) privacy initiatives page Information and Privacy Commisioner/Ontario, CA Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/privacy.html

• Non-English Web Sites for Data Mining, Analytics, and Web Mining

  Français (French) | Deutsch (German) | Italiano (Italian) | Nederlands (Dutch) | Português (Portuguese) | Español (Spanish) | Chinese | Japanese Français (French) Thierry Vallaud Read more »

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/nonenglish.html