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March 11, 2010

ACM Data Mining Camp

Ron Fredericks writes: The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Machine Learning / Data Mining Camp event had a full house. The video presented here attempts to capture both the content and the excitement surrounding this event. Use the table presented below to learn more about the video’s content. Use your mouse to highlight topics presented by our moderator, Dr. Hoffman, and her panel of experts. Click on the dots, once the content has loaded, to jump directly to this content. Post comments related to this event or the online eMedia itself.

The event was moderated by:

The expert panel was represented by:

The Video

ACM Data Mining Camp Expert Panel Discussion with Q&A
March 20′th 2010, held at eBay San Jose CA
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Products Referenced

Use these links to jump to publications discussed by the expert panel

Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions (Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery)

Giovanni Seni (Author), John Elder (Author), Robert Grossman (Series Editor)

Learning MySQL [Paperback]

Seyed M.M. (Saied) Tahaghoghi (Author), Hugh Williams (Author)

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Hugh E. Williams (Author), David Lane (Editor)

Navigating the Video’s Time Line

Have you noticed all those red naviagtion dots embedded into LectureMaker’s video player? These dots allow a viewer to quickly get a sense of what content is included in the video.

“I usually regret when people ask me to watch online video because I just don’t know if my time will be well spent – especially a long video – so I added these red dot hot navigation spots to put online video back on Internet time” – said Ron Fredericks, designer of LectureMaker’s video player.

With these navigation dots, the nature of “Watch my video” has really changed for the better!

Here is a list of navigation dots embedded into this video.  This may help you quickly find content of interest in this video.

Table 1: Navigation embedded into this video (red dots, a.k.a. bread crumbs)

Elapsed
Time
Percent
Played
Description
0 0% Introduce Dr. Patricia Hoffman, Applied Mathematics & Machine Learning
0:36 1.12% Introduce Dr. Ted Dunning, Chief Technology Officer at DeepDyve
1:08 2.00% TD: What makes a good data mining modeling opportunity (intro missed)?
2:50 5.23% Introduce Mr. Joseph B. Rickert\nRevolution Computing
3:16 6.02% JR: Can you compare and contrast data mining vs statistical analysis?
7:30 13.84% Introduce Dr. Giovanni Seni\nElder Research & Santa Clara University
8:01 14.65% GS: How do ensemble methods improve the accuracy of predictions?
10:16 18.92% Introduce Dr. Michael Walker\nStanford University & Walker Bioscience
11:09 20.40% MW: Machine learning & data mining in bio-tech & pharmaceuticals
12:66 23.78% Introduce Dr. Hugh Williams: eBay VP, Search Engine & Buyer Experience
13:37 25.08% RW: How does eBay search for items from the longtail?
16:40 30.71% Introduce Dr. Mike Bowles: Startups, Data Mining, & Quantitative Finance
16:58 31.23% MB: How do you use data mining for automated trading systems?
18:59 34.92% Introduce Mr. Greg Makowski\nPrincipal Consultant, Golden Data Mining
19:25 35.66% GM: How do you use SAS Enterprise Miner tool for fraud analysis?
20:40 38.04% MW: Has data mining been used to enhance personalized medicine?
23:11 42.70% TD: How do corporations take advantage of data mining?
25:30 46.98% MW: How can we use current tools to model biological systems?
27:32 50.73% MB: Can you elaborate on use of data mining tools to build trading models?
29:28 54.28% TD: What methods do you use to compare technical text data vs. other text?
32:45 60.33% GS: How can a data mining model be built to be more scalable and reusable?
36:45 67.81% JR/TD: What training can help statisticians move into data mining field?
41:18 76.17% TD: Is there value in mining household electricity and natural gas data?
44:36 82.14% GM/TD/GS: How would you approach a rare event target with data mining tools?
47:57 88.31% TD: Can Machine Leaning be augmented with text mining?
49:59 92.06% JR/MB: Do you see convergence between statistical analysis and data mining?
53:00 97.61% Audience Follow-up: household data collection of electricity and natural gas
54:09 99.63% Credits

Deep-Pixel Event Photograph

The seating area was completely full as attendees listened to the data mining expert panel.

The snapshot presented here shows LectureMaker’s high-definition portable broadcast video studio with two seperate video cameras and several other media sources. Two studio lights are seen on either side of the panel discussion table to help reduce video noise.

ACM Data Mining Camp Event held at eBay, San Jose – the snapshot

Event references

For details on the event, check on these two links:

SF Bay Area ACM Event web page

ACM Data Mining Camp Event LinkedIn web page

ACM Data Mining Camp Event Photos and Review by DJ Cline

If you are a presenter

There are several breakout sessions after the initial panel discussion. If you are a presenter for one of the breakout sessions please post a comment with your email address (not pubic) to this blog post so I can coordinate with you in advance

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February 25, 2009

Bay Area R User Group 2009 Kickoff Video

Ron Fredericks writes: In February I attended the Bay Area R User Group meeting recently held at Predictive Analytics World 2009. Michael E. Driscoll, one of the two kickoff meeting co-chairs, was gracious enough to let LectureMaker capture the video for the event as a technical marketing “lighthouse” project.

Today I am happy to present this video to my readers.

If you manage the marketing, feature roll-out, or web site design, for a social network or professional ecosystem, then you need the techniques presented in this video.

Watch this video to learn about:

  1. The open-source analytics programming language called R
  2. How Google and Facebook approach analytics to predict their web user community’s behavior
  3. Where to download R and get enterprise level support
  4. How the meeting co-chairs use R

The R and Science of Predictive Analytics: Four Case Studies in R – the Video

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Panel of four recognized R users from industry:

  • Bo Cowgill, Google
  • Itamar Rosenn, Facebook
  • David Smith, Revolution Computing
  • Jim Porzak, The Generations Network

Moderator and co-chair of Bay Area R User Group:

  • Michael E. Driscoll, Dataspora LLC

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March 30, 2008

How to Display Math Symbols in WordPress

Ron Fredericks writes: Have you ever wanted to include math equations in your blog posts or lecture materials?  Here is an easy and slick way to get the job done.  Use Embedded Components new WordPress plugin called WordPress Math Publisher, or wpmathpub, for short. 

As an example, when I embedded the wpmathpub [pmath size=xx] tag into my blog post — like this:

Code (mathtext)
  1. [pmath size=16](a^2+b^2)=a^2+2*a*b+b^2[/pmath]
  2.  
  3. Where:
  4. [pmath size=12]~a[/pmath] is defined as a
  5. [pmath size=12]~b[/pmath] is defined as b

I get the following mathematical equation displayed in my blog post:

(a^2+b^2)=a^2+2*a*b+b^2

where:
~a is defined as a
~b is defined as b

 You can learn more from the plugin’s wiki-like documentation on wordpress.org site itself from here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmathpub/

You can post questions or comments on this plugin from here:

http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2008/03/wpmathpubsupport/

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