Check out the 2010 INFORMS Data Mining Contest. Participants are challenged to predict stock prices at five minute intervals. Visit the site to download the training data set. The submission deadline in October 10th, 2010.
Feb 21
Part of BMW Oracle’s upper hand in the most recent America’s Cup may have come from the use of data mining. The boat and all its sensors can generate 2,500 data points 10 times per second. Check out this article from the Oracle Data Mining and Analytics blog to read the rest.
Oct 24
This Boing Boing article questions whether the US military may be gathering data from unsuspecting teens and using it for data mining exercises to improve recruiting.
Apr 15
GigaOM posted an article claiming that we are in the midst of a data mining renaissance. Sounds good to me.
Mar 25
Rexer Analytics is just about to close their data mining survey and could use your input. The link from the Oracle data mining blog will give you the code you need to participate. After the survey, you can access previous versions of the compiled survey results.
Mar 16
Various groups within a company have adopted new technologies at different rates with Human Resources not know for leading the way. A Business Week article outlines how HR is now starting to leverage data mining to improve it’s
Analyzing employees’ noverbal communication to identify who are the ones good at sharing information and who are the ones that are on their own. Data mining can also be applied to help improve employee retention. By looking at the characteristics of employees who have quit, HR can then look for current employees with similar patterns.
The ultimate goal of all this data mining may be to eventually estimate the contribution that a new hire can make to the company.
Mar 14
The Data Mining Blog put together a great diagram showing how the tons of publicly available data feeds could possibly linked together for a new type of analysis. Also check out linkeddata.org.
Mar 05
Jan 07
The New York Times has picked up on the increasing popularity of the open source analytics and data mining software, R.
Oct 07
According to a recent report from the National Research Council, data mining is not a viable method of automatically identifying terrorist suspects.
