Data Mining, Down Under

Tim O’Reilly points to the news that Experian has made a significant move to improve the quality of their online and demographic data with the acqusition of Hitwise for US$240 Million. Hitwise collects user traffic from ISPs in several countries including Australia and uses that information to provide companies with insight into their online [...]

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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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