Monthly Archives: February 2015

Hadoop and Neo4j

Hadoop is being widely used for processing big data and Neo4j is a popular open-source graph database. When doing social network analysis on big data, a “natural” thought is to use them together. Unfortunately, Neo4j cannot work directly on HDFS … Continue reading

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CFP: 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015)

The 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) Sydney, Australia, 8-9 August 2015 co-located with SIGKDD’15 URL: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/ Join us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and … Continue reading

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UIUC free online courses on data mining starting on 9 Feb, lectured by Prof. Jiawei Han et al.

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com A series of free online data mining courses will start on 9 Feb 2015, lectured by Prof. Jiawei Han and several other staff at UIUC. Prof. Han is one of the top data mining researchers around … Continue reading

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Free online data mining and machine learning courses by Stanford University

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Three free online data mining and machine learning courses lectured by professors at Stanford University started in past two weeks, which provide excellent opportunities to learn advanced data mining and machine learning techniques. If you are … Continue reading

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Canberra IAPA Seminar – Text Analytics: Natural Language into Big Data – 17 February

Topic: Text Analytics: Natural Language into Big Data Speaker: Dr. Leif Hanlen, Technology Director at NICTA Date: Tuesday 17 February Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start Cost: Nil Where: SAS Offices, 12 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT 2600 Registration URL: http://www.iapa.org.au/Event/TextAnalyticsNaturalLanguageIntoBigDataContinue reading

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