Archive for November, 2010

What Is Data Mining?

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
– Mark Twain
Data Mining is defined as:

“the process of extracting patterns from data. “

Today data is seen increasingly as a competitive advantage as opposed to a necessary evil. We’re seeing a lot more data every day in our [...]

A Broad Overview of Machine Learning

Friday, November 12th, 2010

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
— Hal, 2001

In this article I want to take a high level look at the topics of machine learning and data mining and discuss a little bit how the topics are related. [...]