Data Mining, Down Under

You may have listened to Internet radio before, but Pandora is a station of a different kind – totally personalised. Its a Flash based player that sits inside your browser, so no problems with firewalls. But the real innovation is that when you start it up, you tell it the artists you like, and it [...]

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YALE is a data mining and machine learning environment that integrates WEKA and some other SVM related tools into one GUI tool. Looks pretty spiffy – the GUI looks much better than Weka’s, and its Java/cross-platform also. Screenshots here.

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I was very excited to find out that Python scripts can access Java APIs if you run on them Jython interpreter. Jython is a Python interpretor written in Java which some people have put to good use for fast prototyping of WEKA applications. I built a simple classifier using Jython and weka classes and everything [...]

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Each week, Google provides a taste of the top search queries, a site called Google Zeitgeist. At the end of each year, they compile a more comprehensive report of what people have been searching for. The 2005 Zeitgeist has been out since December and provides some interesting insights into online trends over past year. My [...]

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A new desktop BI package called DecisionStudio Professional has launched featuring some of the top tools open source tools for analytics. Version 1.0 features an impressive array of tools, including: MySQL Server for database and data warehouse needs. Graphical tools MySQL Workbench and Query Browser are also included. Python with an IDE. Also additional libraries [...]

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