MPs rush to sign up to legal data mining service – Computing

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MPs rush to sign up to legal data mining service
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Dods Legislation allows users to mine unstructured data from the European Commission and the European Parliament in order to track clauses or entire bills as they are updated or changed. The service, which costs between £6000 and £16000 per person, …
NASA Chat to Show Data Mining’s Safety Value – Occupational Health & Safety

NASA Chat to Show Data Mining’s Safety Value
Occupational Health & Safety
Data mining – analyzing “terabytes of aviation data to find issues before they become incidents,” as NASA explains it – is paying dividends for Southwest Airlines. The airline’s flight safety director, Capt. Jeff Hamlett, will explain how the airline …
Ford Offers F-Series Truck App Software for Towing – Truckinginfo

Ford Offers F-Series Truck App Software for Towing
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More > Mobile data terminal supplier QSI Corp. released the Treq-M4x mobile data terminal…. More > Vigillo, which makes data mining software products that organize fleet safety information in scorecard format, announced its Affiliate Member Program. …
Googlers Buy More Junk Food Than Microsofties (And Why Rapleaf Is Creepy) – TechCrunch

Googlers Buy More Junk Food Than Microsofties (And Why Rapleaf Is Creepy)
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If you weren’t creeped out by data-mining startup Rapleaf after reading about their ways in a relatively unsettling Wall Street Journal article published last October (“The San Francisco startup says it has 1 billion e-mail addresses in its database”), …
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Drilling Down With Informatica – Seeking Alpha

Drilling Down With Informatica
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I’ve been intrigued, not by the stock, but by its sector of data mining ever since I became aware of it a couple of years ago. Data mining stocks haven’t really piqued my interest that much, because the main players are software industry behemoths IBM …
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HHS plans to pay for state data mining to spot Medicaid fraud – Government Health IT

HHS plans to pay for state data mining to spot Medicaid fraud
Government Health IT
The Health and Human Services Department has proposed that state Medicaid agencies be able to use federal funds to help pay for uncovering fraud through the screening and analysis of Medicaid claims data. Data mining is one of the …
HHS Seeks To Allow State Data Mining for Medicaid FraudiHealthBeat
HHS seeks to let states data-mine for fraudModernHealthcare.com
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Senate Hearings to Investigate Corporate Data Mining and Individual Privacy – AACRAO Transcript

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Senate Hearings to Investigate Corporate Data Mining and Individual Privacy
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On Wednesday, the Senate initiated a series hearings investigating corporate data mining and individual privacy. There is now an enormous multibillion-dollar industry based on the collection and sale of this personal and behavioral data, reports Time …
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Medicaid Data Mining Proposed – GovInfoSecurity.com

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Medicaid Data Mining Proposed
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To ramp up efforts to detect Medicaid fraud, the Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a rule that would enable states to use federal matching funds to support Medicaid claims data mining. Current law prohibits use of the federal funds …
Rule to Enable Medicaid Data Mining for FraudHealth Data Management
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Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You – TIME

Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You
TIME
RapLeaf, a data-mining company that was recently banned by Facebook because it mined people’s user IDs, has me down as a 35-to-44-year-old married male with a graduate degree living in LA But RapLeaf thinks I have no kids, work as a medical …
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Big Data Mining: Who Owns Your Social Network Data? – PCWorld

Big Data Mining: Who Owns Your Social Network Data?
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Business analysts can study large data sets by renting servers for an hour, using technology such as Hadoop, he says. Mining the social networks’ Big Data Companies such as Echo and Cloudera are seeking their niche in the Big Data and social network …
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Here is my version of top 10 data mining sites for beginners in data mining/business intelligence/analytics. Anyway, welcome to the club 🙂

1. Data Mining Community’s Top Resource (KDnuggets) – great info for software resources, education, jobs etc.
2. StatSoft Data Mining Techniques – great info for data mining process, concepts, modeling, data warehousing etc. They even have online Statistics textbook that offers training in the understanding and application of statistics.
3. Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (AutonLab) – compilation of a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
4. Kurt Thearling Data Mining – a great introduction to data mining foundation, including data mining architecture and glossary terms.
5. The Data Mine – collaborative input using Twiki about data mining and knowledge discovery including exhaustive list of software/tools (free and commercials).
6. Videolectures on Data Mining – popular video lecture on recent data mining technologies by data mining people.
7. Video Tutorials (sentimentmining) – an online data mining video tutorials using WEKA for beginners, including how to perform text mining, clustering, neural network and sentiment mining.
8. Information Management – an up-to-date publication for business intelligence, analytics, integration and data warehousing.
9. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery – premier technical journal focused on the theory, techniques and practice for extracting information from large databases.
10. Wikipedia on Data Mining – last but not least an online encyclopedia on data mining including, background, process and applications of data mining.