Data Miners - Interesting Links

Praise for Mining the Web:

"Linoff and Berry have done it again! They are not only experts in data mining as they proved with their previous books, but also experts in getting the most from the Web."

Susan Osterfelt, Senior Vice President, Bank of America

Links of Interest

Webcasts

Webcast sponsored by JMP Measuring the Right Thing presented by Michael Berry
Preview of Understanding Business Time-to-Event Problems Using Survival Data Mining presented by Gordon Linoff - the full webcast is available from Henry Stewart Talks.
Preview of Data Mining for Customer Relationship Management presented by Michael Berry - the full webcast is available from Henry Stewart Talks.
Being a Consultant Means Learning New Tricks. Podcast of a talk by Michael Berry to the first class of incoming data mining graduate students at the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University. July 2007. (Plays in Quicktime.)

Selected Articles

Interview with Gordon Linoff - Discussion on BI on bMighty.com. September 2007.
Seven Years Later, Lessons Learned - Article written by Michael J. A. Berry, for b-eye-network.com, June 2004.
Survival Data Mining - Article written by Gordon Linoff for Intelligent Enterprise Vol. 7 Number 12, August 2004.
Survival Data Mining Presentation - Presentation given by Gordon Linoff at SUGI29, Montreal, May 2004.
Survival Data Mining- Technical white paper by Will Potts.
Customer-Centric Forecasting Using Survival Analysis- White paper by Michael Berry.

Useful Websites

The Data Miners blog.
Gordon Linoff's SQL Server data mining blog.
KD Nuggets- A data mining web site with a free email newsletter in data mining and knowledge discovery. The best place to start.
SIG KDD Explorations. Journal of the ACM's special interest group on knowledge discovery in databases.
B-eye-network. Industry specific resources and information for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing professionals.
Information Management - Offers a weekly, on-line free subscription magazine.
UC Irvine datasets for data mining. Datasets to play with.
United States Census. Demographic data on the United States.
Statistics Canada. Demographic data on Canada.
UK National Statistics. Statistics on the United Kingdom.
Statistics South Africa. Demographic data on South Africa.