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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 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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Variance and significance in large-scale online services

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

In any event, let’s say we have an appropriate choice of experimental unit. As the event becomes rarer, this grows as $1/sqrt{p}$. Sometimes, the metric of interest is not the average rate of a rare binary event, per se, but is gated by such an event.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

A rule-learning program in high energy physics event classification. Data mining for direct marketing: Problems and solutions. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 73–79. Smote: Synthetic minority over-sampling technique. 16(1), 321–357.

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LSOS experiments: how I learned to stop worrying and love the variability

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Rare binary event example In the previous post , we discussed how rare binary events can be fundamental to the LSOS business model. Let $Y$ be the Bernoulli random variable representing the purchase event in a user session. Y$ is the binary event of a purchase. To that end, it is worth studying them in more detail.