The book: Introduction to Data Mining (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Data-Mining-Pang-Ning-Tan/dp/0321321367/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212476696&sr=8-1)
Sandro Saitta
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Hello,
In my opinion, you don't need to be a math guru to do data mining. I'm not an expert in maths, but of course, you need some basics and some algorithmics knowledge. As you are in software development, I think it should be allright.
The field of machine learning is much more math...
Hello,
For interested people, you can find an interview with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, data mining expert and president of KDnuggets on Data Mining Research:
http://dataminingresearch.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-with-gregory-piatetsky.html
Sandro Saitta
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I understand your point of view. But at that time, the buzzword was maybe machine learning and not data mining. I personally see "data mining" and "statistics" as two different fields (although closely related). The way you approach the same problem is completely different from a statistic or...
Hi,
Regarding resources, you can start with the data mining entry on Wikipedia. A good practitioner book is the one by Witten and Frank (Data Mining, 2005). If you're more interested about algorithms themselves, I advice the book by Tan et al. (Introduction to Data Mining, 2006). The site...
Hello,
I have created a new custom search engine that focuses on data mining. You can access it here:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=002173145610235857072%3A1agmeqbmpke
Feel free to add any site, topic, blog or news that is related to data mining (you can of course add yours, if you have...
After reading the very interesant discussion about reporting and data mining on this forum (http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=441384&page=1), I have found an interesting paper which is comparing (to a certain extent) statistics and data mining. The main question the author ask is...
Hello there,
I have written an introduction to feature selection on my blog at this address (there are two parts):
http://dataminingresearch.blogspot.com/2007/09/introduction-to-feature-selection-part.html
I hope it helps.
Sandro Saitta
http://www.dataminingblog.com
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