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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

This data alone does not make any sense unless it’s identified to be related in some pattern. Data mining is the process of discovering these patterns among the data and is therefore also known as Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). Machine learning provides the technical basis for data mining.

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KDD 2020 Opens Call for Papers

Data Science 101

This weeks guest post comes from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). Every year they host an excellent and influential conference focusing on many areas of data science. Honestly, KDD has been promoting data science way before data science was even cool. 1989 to be exact.

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KDD 2020 Call for Research, Applied Data Science Papers

KDnuggets

ACM SIGKDD Invites Industry and Academic Experts to Submit Advancements in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning for 26 th Annual Conference in San Diego.

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How Do Super Rookies Start Learning Data Analysis?

FineReport

For super rookies, the first task is to understand what data analysis is. Data analysis is a type of knowledge discovery that gains insights from data and drives business decisions. One is how to gain insights from the data. Data is cold and can’t speak. From Google. There are two points here.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

References [1] Henning Hohnhold, Deirdre O'Brien, Diane Tang, Focus on the Long-Term: It's better for Users and Business , Proceedings 21st Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2015. [2] 2] Ron Kohavi, Randal M.

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Variance and significance in large-scale online services

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by AMIR NAJMI Running live experiments on large-scale online services (LSOS) is an important aspect of data science. In this post we explore how and why we can be “ data-rich but information-poor ”. There are many reasons for the recent explosion of data and the resulting rise of data science.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

The dataset and code used in this blog post are available at [link] and all results shown here are fully reproducible, thanks to the Domino reproducibility engine, which is part of the Domino Data Science platform. Data mining for direct marketing: Problems and solutions. Protein classification with imbalanced data.