This is an introductory-level course in supervised learning, with a focus on regression and classification methods. The syllabus includes: linear and polynomial regression, logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis; cross-validation and the bootstrap, model selection and regularization methods (ridge and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The Program of AusDM 2014 Conference is now available at http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/program. It features two keynote talks, one on Learning in Sequential Decision Problems by Prof Peter Bartlett from UC Berkeley, and the other on Making Sense of a Random World through … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com “Data is becoming a powerful and most valuable commodity in 21st century. It is leading to scientific insights and new ways of understanding human behaviour. Data can also make you rich. Very rich.” — SBS documentary … Continue reading → [Read more...]

********************************************************* 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014) Brisbane, Australia 27-28 November 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. Since AusDM’02 the conference … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com I have made a series of slides on R and data mining, based on my book titled R and Data Mining — Examples and Case Studies. The slides will be used at my presentations at seminars … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Slides of 12 tutorials taught by data science experts and thought leaders at ACM SIGKDD 2014 are provided at http://www.kdd.org/kdd2014/tutorials.html. Below is a list of them. 1.Scaling Up Deep Learning Yoshua Bengio 2. Constructing and mining web-scale knowledge graphs Antoine … Continue reading → [Read more...]

RDataMining Group: http://group.rdatamining.com Twitter: @RDataMining Website: http://www.RDataMining.com The RDataMining group has 6000 members today, 5 July 2014. Created in August 2011, this group has developed into a big community with 6000 member within three years. Since its creation, many members … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I have made an example of time series forecasting with R, demonstrating currency exchange rate forecasting with the ARIMA and STL models. The example is easy to understand and follow. R source files are provided to run the example. The … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao RDataMining.com Following my first R-Hadoop system setup guide written in Sept 2013, I have further tested setting up a Hadoop system for running R code, as well as using HBase. I have tested it both on a … Continue reading → [Read more...]

A sequence of 9 courses on Data Science will start on Coursera on 2 June and 7 July 2014, to be lectured by(Associate/Assistant) Professors of Johns Hopkins University. The courses are designed for students to learn to become Data Scientists … Continue reading → [Read more...]

A 10-week course on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng from Stanford University will start on Coursera on 16 June. Below are descriptions of the course picked up from Coursera. The course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, data mining, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

********************************************************* 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014) Brisbane, Australia 27-28 November 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* Data Mining is the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually big) data sets for meaningful insights. Data mining is actively applied across all … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This page shows Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) with R. It demonstrates with an example of automatic layout of Australian cities based on distances between them. The layout obtained with MDS is very close to their locations on a map. At first, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Book title: Data Mining Applications with R Editors: Yanchang Zhao, Yonghua Cen Publisher: Elsevier Publish date: December 2013 ISBN: 978-0-12-411511-8 Length: 514 pages URL: http://www.rdatamining.com/books/dmar An edited book titled Data Mining Applications with R was released in December 2013, which … Continue reading → [Read more...]

An edited book titled Data Mining Applications with R will be on market soon, which features 15 real-word applications on data mining with R. A preview of the book is available on Google Books. R code, data and color figures … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com After reading documents and tutorials on MapReduce and Hadoop and playing with RHadoop for about 2 weeks, finally I have built my first R Hadoop system and successfully run some R examples on it. My experience … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com The lectures in week 3 of a free online course Introduction to Data Science give an excellent introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop, and demonstrate with examples how to use MapReduce to do various tasks, such as, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

********************************************************************* The 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2013) Canberra, Australia, 13-15 November 2013, http://ausdm13.togaware.com Join us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 ********************************************************************* Data mining, the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Call for participation: DMApps 2013 – an International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government in conjunction with PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14, 2013 http://dmapps2013.rdatamining.com To attend the workshop, you need to register for PAKDD 2013 … Continue reading → [Read more...]