KDnuggets : Data Mining Course Home (English)

Description:	Data Mining is one of the hottest fields in Computer Science. Data has been accumulating throughout the computer age in many forms, including database systems, spreadsheets, text files, and recently web pages. These data have been stored on hard drives and temporary storage media. Database programs can query for specific information such as "how many patients are over age 70," but there is potentially much more in the data than such specific information. The real treasure could be some interesting new patterns, that we don't even know that we should ask for, for example, "the best predictor of Alzheimer disease for patients over 70 is the ratio of Tau and Ab42 proteins". Data mining programs are intended to search through data for hidden relationships and patterns in your data. This is particularly pertinent to marketing companies who want to know what made a specific group of people buy their product. It can also be very important in scientific fields such as medicine where finding correlations in groups of people who are affected by a similar disease could be very helpful. Data mining is needed to make sense and use of the rapidly growing data and is an essential field of the 21st century.
Lecturer:	Parker, Gary Piatetsky-Shapiro, Gregory
Language:	English
URL:	http://www.kdnuggets.com/dmcourse/index.html
Material Url:	http://www.kdnuggets.com/dmcourse/index.html
Date:	2004