Category Archives: Data Mining

CFP: the 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2013), submission due 15 July

********************************************************************* The 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2013) Canberra, Australia, 13-15 November 2013, http://ausdm13.togaware.com Join us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 ********************************************************************* Data mining, the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) … Continue reading

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Call for participation: DMApps 2013 – an International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government

Call for participation: DMApps 2013 – an International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government in conjunction with PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14, 2013 http://dmapps2013.rdatamining.com To attend the workshop, you need to register for PAKDD 2013 … Continue reading

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New book announcement: R and Data Mining – Examples and Case Studies

R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies Author: Yanchang Zhao Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier Publish date: December 2012 ISBN: 978-0-12-396963-7 Length: 256 pages URL: http://www.rdatamining.com/books/rdm This book introduces into using R for data mining with examples and case studies. … Continue reading

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Two free online courses starting soon: Data Analysis (with R) and Social Network Analysis

There are two online courses starting soon on Coursera, which are free to register. 1. Data Analysis (with R) It is a 8-week online course starting on Jan 22nd 2013 <https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis&gt;. This course is an applied statistics course focusing on … Continue reading

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R code and data for book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies”

R code and data for book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” are now available at http://www.rdatamining.com/books/rdm/code. An online PDF version of the book (the first 11  chapters only) can also be downloaded at http://www.rdatamining.com/docs. Below are its … Continue reading

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CFP: DMApps 2013 – Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government, submission due by Jan 6, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS DMApps 2013: the International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry & Government In conjunction with PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013 http://dmapps2013.rdatamining.com The 2013 International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry & Government … Continue reading

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Call for contribution: the RDataMining package – an R package for data mining

Join the RDataMining project to build a comprehensive R package for data mining http://www.rdatamining.com/package We have started the RDataMining project on R-Forge to build an R package for data mining. The package will provide various functionalities for data mining, with … Continue reading

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CFP: AusDM 2012, deadline extended to 31 August 2012

The Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia 5-7 December 2012 http://ausdm12.togaware.com/ Deadline extended to 31 August 2012 The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data … Continue reading

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R is reported as being used by about half of all data miners in the 2011 Data Miners Survey

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com R is reported as now being used by close to half of all data miners (47%) in the 2011 Data Miners Survey by Rexer Analytics. Below is picked up from the survey highlights regarding data mining … Continue reading

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Examples and resources on association rule mining with R

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com The technique of association rules is widely used for retail basket analysis, as well as in other applications to find assocations between itemsets and between sets of attribute-value pairs. It can also be used for classification … Continue reading

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