Data Mining, Down Under

Earlier in the month local data miner Tim Manns presented at the Sydney Data Miners group.  Tim spoke on some work been doing at Optus around using mobile call patterns to establish social networks and using these networks to reduce customer churn.  Interestingly, there are also applications in many other areas, including data cleansing, for [...]

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Australian Data Mining conference (AusDM09) will be held in Melbourne next December and Dr Phil Brierley of Tiberius Data Mining has put out the call for proposals for an analytic challenge to accompany the conference.  Competitions are quite popular in data mining circles and provide a good training ground for new practitioners to get access [...]

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The SAS Forum (Australia) was held in Sydney back in August.  I was unable to attend but luckily the presentations have been put online.  Here are some that I found interesting: Make Sure Your Insight is Insightful: Analytical Marketing at NAB by Antony Ugoni (National Australia Bank) Model Deployment and Management – The ATO Story [...]

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Here’s an interesting read. Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists takes a look at just how much information we can extract from publicly available data such as Amazon.com’s Wish List service. The wish list allows a user to bookmark items they would like either by coming back and purchase at a later date [...]

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