R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies Author: Yanchang Zhao Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier Publish date: December 2012 ISBN: 978-0-12-396963-7 Length: 256 pages URL: http://www.rdatamining.com/books/rdm This book introduces into using R for data mining with examples and case studies. … Continue reading → [Read more...]

There are two online courses starting soon on Coursera, which are free to register. 1. Data Analysis (with R) It is a 8-week online course starting on Jan 22nd 2013 . This course is an applied statistics course focusing on … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R code and data for book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” are now available at http://www.rdatamining.com/books/rdm/code. An online PDF version of the book (the first 11  chapters only) can also be downloaded at http://www.rdatamining.com/docs. Below are its … Continue ... [Read more...]

CALL FOR PAPERS DMApps 2013: the International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry & Government In conjunction with PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013 http://dmapps2013.rdatamining.com The 2013 International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry & Government … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Join the RDataMining project to build a comprehensive R package for data mining http://www.rdatamining.com/package We have started the RDataMining project on R-Forge to build an R package for data mining. The package will provide various functionalities for data mining, with … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia 5-7 December 2012 http://ausdm12.togaware.com/ Deadline extended to 31 August 2012 The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Below are simple examples of profiling R code, which help to find out which steps or functions are most time consuming. It is very useful for improving efficiency of R code. # profiling of running time … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com R is reported as now being used by close to half of all data miners (47%) in the 2011 Data Miners Survey by Rexer Analytics. Below is picked up from the survey highlights regarding data mining … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com The technique of association rules is widely used for retail basket analysis, as well as in other applications to find assocations between itemsets and between sets of attribute-value pairs. It can also be used for classification … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia, 5-7 December 2012 http://ausdm12.togaware.com/ The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. This year’s conference, AusDM’12, co-hosted … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com It is a 270-page book on data mining with Excel. It can be downloaded as a PDF file at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.1393&rep=rep1&type=pdf. Below is its table of contents. - Overview of the Data Mining Process - ... [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com There is an excellent tutorial on outlier detection techniques, presented by Hans-Peter Kriegel et al. at ACM SIGKDD 2010. It presents many popular outlier detection algorithms, most of which were published between mid 1990s and 2010, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com There is a nice example on sentiment analysis with R at . In the example, the Wikileaks cable corpus is analyzed to track US sentiments of other countries and their presidents over time. The example describes … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com There are some nice slides and R code examples on Data Mining and Exploration at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/, which are listed below. PDF Slides: - Overview of Data Mining http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/2012/slides/... [Read more...]

The Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia 5-7 December 2012 http://ausdm12.togaware.com/ Data mining, the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) insights, is now being actively applied in … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com This post presents an example of social network analysis with R using package igraph. The data to analyze is Twitter text data of @RDataMining used in the example of Text Mining, and it can be downloaded … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com My book in draft titled “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” is now available on CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html. It is scheduled to be published by Elsevier in late 2012. Its latest version can be … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com With a Mac, parallel computing can be achieved with package multicore. Unfortunately, it does not work under Windows. A simple way for parallel computing under Windows (and also Mac) is using package snowfall, which can work … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Compared with many other programming languages, such as C/C++ and Java, R is less efficient and consumes much more memory. Fortunately, there are some packages that enables parallel computing in R and also packages for processing … Continue reading → [Read more...]

2nd CALL FOR CHAPTERS: proposals due by 31 May 2012 Data Mining Applications with R A book to be published by Elsevier http://www.RDataMining.com/books/book2 Introduction —————— R is one of the most widely used data mining tools in scientific and business … Continue reading → [Read more...]