Data Mining Interest Continues To Rise

University
leads data mine plan (NEWS.com.au - Australia)

"The University of Technology Sydney is trying to establish a $38
million data mining center of excellence to involve universities,
industry and government..."

It is interesting to see how important Data Mining is becoming.

Bayes

Bayes
Lecture

Papers

Repository of publications related to Data Mining

Includes interesting papers such as Efficient
algorithms for creating product catalogs, Selective
Markov Models for Predicting Web-Page Accesses, Web
Page Categorization and Feature Selection Using Association Rule and
Principal Component Clustering, and some others that look
interesting.

Data Mining Dataset & Model Repositories

UCI KDD Archive
The central repository for data mining datasets.

ML UCI Repository
The central ML machine learning repository

PMML Sample
Models various PMML models for some of the commonly used datasets
(such as Iris, Voting, and Elnino).

DMG - PMML

PMML Specs
"Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is an XML-based language
which provides a quick and easy way for companies to define predictive
models and share models between compliant vendors' applications."

It is sponsored by the Data Mining Group (DMG).

Data Mining in the news...

Uncle Sam is Watching You
This article talks about various ways in which the government uses data mining.

Data-Mining
research ($600,000 funded by Carnegie Mellon) that will that will be
used to create software for "for discovering, visualizing and
exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text
humanities resources in digital libraries and collections." The
project is titled: "Web-based Text-Mining and Visualization for
Humanities Digital Libraries."

Oracle(R) Data Mining Recognized as a Leader by Independent ...

Latest Version of SPSS Data Mining Workbench Enhances Integration ...

Personalized Web

Philip Chan
The main goal of Philip's research is to "develop techniques for
adaptive and personalized information searching and navigation
guidance on the web."

Related Work

Implicit User Profiling for On Demand Relevance

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
http://iuiconf.org/overview.html

Web Mining (Relationships)

An Exploration of Entity Models, Collective Classification
and Relation Description (PDF)
Interesting research which suggests possibilites of creating question
and answering systems.

http://www.ceas.cc/papers-2004/176.pdf
Great paper about extracting social networks and contact information from only a user's email inbox.

Text & Web Mining

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/wfan/text_mining.html
http://poorva.com/aie/?Google_WebMining
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cooley97web.html
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mobasher/webminer/survey/survey.html

Data Mining Glossary
http://www.togaware.com/datamining/survivor/Glossary.html (Useful glossary of data mining concepts and vocabulary.)

Andrew McCallum

This guy has some interesting research:
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/

Bamshad Mobasher

He has done some interesting research regarding web mining and user personalization:
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/index.html
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/cgi-bin/view-pubs.pl?CID=WCM

ID3 - Machine Learning

I've been studying and coding up the ID3 classification algorithm.
When I get a free moment I'll be reading Text and Web Mining papers.

Papers that I'm reading

Low-Complexity Fuzzy Relational Clustering Algorithms for Web Mining (PDF)

Introduction to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PDF)

Web Mining Links

Web Mining
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ajoshi/web-mine/
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pebronia/text-mining/
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/theo-3/www/
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tszhu/webmining.htm
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/wfan/text_mining.html
http://www.kdnuggets.com/
http://www.kddresearch.org/
CMU World Wide Knowledge Base (Web->KB) project

Web Mining Software
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/web.html
http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/SOFTWARE/YALE/download.html

Meta Learning (METAL)

These past couple days I have been browsing the Internet and reading more about Data Mining while focusing on Meta Learning. I have posted links to some of the documents that I thought interesting. Unfortunately the main MetaL-KDD website (http://www.metal-kdd.org) is down so I cannot read what is available there. So I've been googling and reading what else is available today.

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stdatmin.html#meta
Discusses basic concepts about Data Mining and Meta Learning

http://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/data-mining.html
List of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (KD) Websites

http://www.fedstats.gov/
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies

Weka Metal (Meta Learning Extension for Weka)

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/pub_by_author.jsp?id=12799

References for Christophe Giraud-Carrier
http://www.scd.ucar.edu/hps/GROUPS/dm/dm.html

Data Mining Resources (somewhat outdated)
UCL Data Mining
Protein Structure Analysis and Modeling (not sure what this is)

Web site navigation...
http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~mark/download/besttrail.pdf
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/levene03navigating.html
PDF version of the citation above