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I will run an 8-hour course on R and Data Mining at Black Mountain, CSIRO, Australia on 10 & 13 December 2018. The course materials, incl. slides, R scripts and datasets, are available at http://www.rdatamining.com/training/course. Below is outline of the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Short Course on R and Data Mining Information Technology and Engineering, University of Canberra Fees: There is no fees for the short course but seats are limited to 60 – so register early through http://www.meetup.com/CanberraDataSci/events/234168862/ Presenters: Dr Yanchang Zhao (Adjunct … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Topic: Text, Knowledge, and Information Extraction Speaker: Dr. Lizhen Qu, Researcher at NICTA Organizer: Canberra Data miners Meetup Group Date and time: 4:30-5:30pm, Tuesday 1 Sept Location: Teal Room of Inspire Centre, University of Canberra, Building 25, University of Canberra, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao RDataMining.com I attended the KDD 2015 conference in Sydney last week. At the conference, there were more than 10 tutorials and I went to two of them, which are 1) Graph-Based User Behavior Modeling: From Prediction to … Continue reading → [Read more...]

RDataMining.com now has a mirror website at http://www2.rdatamining.com. Users in China can download RDataMining documents, code and data at above mirror site, if no access to http://www.rdatamining.com. Note that RDataMining.com will still be the primary site and please visit www2.RDataMining.com … ... [Read more...]

************************************************************* The 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) Sydney, Australia, 8–9 August 2015 URL: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/ ************************************************************* The Australasian Data Mining Conference is devoted to the art and science of intelligent data mining: the meaningful analysis of (usually large) data … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The 2015 Big Data Summit 9-10 August 2015 collocated with ACM KDD 2015, Sydney URL: http://2015.bigdatasummit.co/ We take this privilege opportunity to invite you to participate in the 2015 Big Data Summit: • Co-located with ACM KDD2015 • Plenary sessions … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I will run a workshop on R and Data Mining for students in the Master of Business Analytics course at Deakin University in Melbourne on Thursday 28 May. The workshop will cover: – Introduction to Data Mining with R and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) Sydney, Australia, 8–9 August 2015 (co-located with SIGKDD’15) URL: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/ The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. It … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 29 April Time: 5.45pm for a 6pm start Cost: Nil Where: SAS Offices, 12 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT 2600 RSVP link: http://www.iapa.org.au/Event/ACTChapterEvent29AprilBigDataInSocialSciences Join us for our next ACT Chapter Event on the 29th of April. We have guest … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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 → [Read more...]

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 → [Read more...]

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 → [Read more...]

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 → [Read more...]

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/TextAnalyticsNaturalLanguageIntoBigData … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com RStudio recently ran a series of live webinars on Essential Tools for Data Science with R, but it is inconvenient for people from other time zones to attend. Fortunately, the recordings have been made available online, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

My book titled R and Data Mining – Examples and Case Studies now has its Chinese version, translated by researchers at South China University of Technology, and published by China Machine Press in September 2014. It is sold in China … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R and Data Mining Workshop at AusDM 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/workshop There will be a half-day workshop on R and Data Mining at the AusDM 2014 conference in Brisbane, Thursday afternoon, 27 November. The workshop will be composed of several sessions on … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Slides of keynote speeches, tutorials and panelist presentations at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data can be found at the conference website at links below. (1) Keynote speech http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/keynotespeech.htm - Never-Ending Language Learning, Tom Mitchell – E. Fredkin … Continue reading → [Read more...]