I've noticed an increasing number of jobs that are asking for experience with datamining and business intelligence technologies. This sounds like an incredibly broad topic but where would one go if they wanted to develop at least a partial understanding of this stuff if it were to come up in an interview?
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Go read Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Second Edition). Then use Weka on a pet project. Despite the name, this is a good book, and the Weka package has several levels of entry into the data-m... er machine-learning world.
Yuval F
2009-07-12 13:00:37
Thanks for the link to Weka. A lot of this stuff does feel reminiscent of topics that come up in university Statistics and AI courses.
redrockettt
2009-07-12 21:27:04
+1
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A very good book with practical examples is the
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran.
Nick D
2009-07-12 13:09:05
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Consider reading Ralph Kimball's books for an introduction to Business Intelligence. Also, try to not stick to one technolgy-vendor, every company has its own biased vision of BI, you'll need a 360 overview.
iChaib
2010-01-04 20:23:06