Data Mining project ideas?

Question

Hi

I am looking for project ideas in the field of data mining. I expect to complete it in a quarter and intend to use C++, Linux as the environment.

The course I'm taking aims to build the basics of data mining and covers topics like Classification, Regression-Modeling, Clustering and Association learning.

Please point me to some good ideas which I can chew on.

cheers

Answer 1

How about using the SO data dump as a data source and deriving relationships based on tags, age, location, etc.

Answer 2

Here is a data mining competition that is currently open and might interest you. http://www.informsdmcontest2009.org/ . The dataset has data of every visit of a patient to a hospital. The goal is to determine the outcome of a patient's current visit, given data about all their previous visits.

Answer 3

Although a bit of a late answer, for anyone else who finds this question (I'm on a similar quest), I have found theinfo.org a site which is -full- of data sets, and a good jumping point for a class data mining project. One warning though - the site appears to be a bit neglected, and some spam has built up.

Answer 4

Test whether Market Basket Analysis techniques applied to sorting and ordering of the items from a store leads to increased sells.

Answer 5

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