Archive for the 'Data Mining' Category

Federal Government Data from Data.gov

FinancialStability.gov TARP Transactions Data: Asset Guarantee Program financial stability, TARP, treasury, AGP, asset guarantee program http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/datagov.html http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/assetguaranteeprogram.htm http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/datagov.html
FinancialStability.gov TARP Transactions Data: Automotive Industry Financing Program financial stability, TARP, treasury, AIFP, automotive industry financing program http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/datagov.html http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/autoprogram.html http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/datagov.html
FinancialStability.gov TARP Transactions Data: Automotive Supplier Support Program financial stability, TARP, treasury, ASSP, automotive supplier support program http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/datagov.html http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/autoprogram.html http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/datagov.html
FinancialStability.gov TARP Transactions Data: Consumer Business and Lending Initiative [...]

Predictive Analytics World

Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve:
* Bigger wins: Strengthen the impact of predictive analytics deployment
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Netflix Prize – 2008 Progress Prize Winner?

Not officially announced yet, but I just saw this email from the Netflix Prize team:
As of October 2, 2008 00:00:00 UTC, we have stopped gathering submissions for the 2008 Progress Prize. There is 1 submission from 1 team that meets the minimum requirements for this Progress Prize. We will report, as soon as [...]

Exabyte Database Server from Oracle

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Well, I had been waiting to watch (via the web) Larry Ellison’s big keynote speech at Oracle’s Open World this week, then promptly forgot all about it as it was happening. The had been a lot of speculation about what the big X announcement was going to be. [...]

If you don’t want to be treated like a sheep…

…then don’t act like a sheep. photo credit: russelljsmithSteve Steinberg’s new blog, called comma separated values, has an interesting entry about group think and the predictability of not only groups, but also individuals within those groups. Also known as crowd dynamics. Alas, many of the comments are concerns about “one’s personal [...]

Data Mining and Warranty Fraud

I have problems keeping my glasses clean – it is the oddest thing – dust just seems to settle right on the lens. It seems that no matter how I clean the lenses, whatever I am doing is causing small cracks in the lens where they meet the frame. So, today I went [...]

Paperless Office still MIA in 2006

Quite a few years ago while going to college I had a great job working for the Navy. It was a student job – a lot of filing, photocopying and answering phones – but I also got to dig deeper into how data was being managed. Helping some people with their tasks and [...]

Official Google Research Blog

The first blog entry is titled Making a difference, which I guess is exactly what Google would expect of “lots of world class Ph.D.s (and a few non-Ph.D.s)“. It is interesting that they made a distinction between engineers (“who do the real work”) and Ph.D.s. Golly, the blog was launched almost a month [...]

The Geomblog – data mining blogger

The sub-title of this data mining blog is “Ruminations on computational geometry, algorithms, theoretical computer science and life”. I enjoy capturing links to blogs that have a great number of entries to browse through for new ideas. This blog has been around since early 2004 and it is updated quite often.
For [...]