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So what would you recommend be the first step in learning about Data mining? Any resources/books you can suggest? [I figured since you just got into it ... ]
by raju 17y ago
So what would you recommend be the first step in learning about Data mining? Any resources/books you can suggest?
[I figured since you just got into it ... ]
- coderdude 17y agoI may have mislead you. I occasionally refer to information extraction (through nlp) as data mining. It's a bad habit, but data mining just sounds cooler.
- vlod 17y ago"Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications" is worth checking out in Borders to get a sense if it's gobbledegook amazon link: http://bit.ly/5JlRz7 http://bit.ly/5JlRz7
- nerme 17y agoLearn some linear algebra. Literally every how'd-they-do-that-technique from OCR to PageRank is based on putting data in to a matrix and extracting some eigenvectors. I took LA in college, but my professor was no where near as good and on topic in relation to computer algorithms as this guy: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/Cours... Oh, check out R. There are a lot of free papers and example code showing say, how principal component analysis on a dataset of migratory geese can be used to explain so and so, along with generating some pretty pictures. It's a really nice bit of OSS!