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Entries from May 2009

Ten Data Mining Mistakes to Avoid

May 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Tips & Tutorials

Some really good advice here from John Elder in a series of video tutorials on data mining mistakes to avoid. Tip #5, regarding contaminating the project with future data is a good one, although sometimes it can be quite tricky (if not impossible) to ‘rewind’ the data! I believe the video series is a part [...]

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RapidMiner to get dual GUIs

May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Software

A forum post by Ingo Mierswa of Rapid-I indicates the upcoming RapidMiner v5 will feature two GUIs: the existing tree-based designer and a new graph-based designer! I’m quite excited about this because I’ve personally found the existing UI a bit clunky. Details and screenshots over at the user forum.

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