Data mining means extracting patterns from existing data. If this extraction process is applied to corporate industry many fruitful results can be seen. If, in a business administration or organisation, one keeps a note of the Sales, Market research, Customer’s requirements and complaints encountered and then mine this data to predict or identify patterns to understand the correct requirements of the customer and further fulfilling them. This will help boost the business and improve customer relationships.

This combination of data ming and business management is becoming cheaper as the computers and large storage disks used in this process are easily available now and at affordable prices. But, this process may also lead to the shifting of focus of providing service from the most profitable (minority) less percentage of customers to less profitable (majority) highly demanding customers. It is therefore vitally important to recognise profitable customers, and the characteristics that define them, Falconer argues. For example, changes in their purchasing behaviour can either present an opportunity to follow the trend, or a threat the company will promptly have to address. Accurate, up-to-date customer information will give sales staff many cross-sell, up-sell, and repeat-sales opportunities, he concludes. Unfortunately, this data is rarely analysed or put to productive use because many small business owners often neglect to apply core marketing principles to attract and retain clients.
As more and more data is mined and converted into knowledge historical patterns will crystalline and trend lines will become evident. Data mining, integrated into modern customer relationship management solutions are already enabling IT reseller businesses to grow the ‘lifetime value’ of their customers and so assume leadership positions in the IT industry – whether their target market is individual end users or corporate clients. Now which strategy will you choose? The good old Business Negligence or the fast developing Business Intelligence. When you have success at your door step.. Why not opening up the door instead of ignoring it?

[IT WEB]

Now that you have watched the video, you can observe that,  Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time. You can ask Siri questions naturally just as you will ask your assistant,like ” Book a ticket for London!” or ” Will it snow today?”. It understands information like where you are, what accounts you have on various services and the context of the last question you asked. Over time ,Siri will improve by getting to know you better and understand a broader set of tasks and soon you’ll trust it to manage many personal details in your life – from recommending a wine you might enjoy to managing your to do list.

The current version of Siri is built for iPhone 3GS and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later. Soon, Siri will run on the iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and additional mobile platforms, as well.

Siri can get you information about Restaurants, Airline Tickets, Events, Taxis, Movies, Local and Weather Forcasts in a very simple conversation. Siri is the first Mobile Application which acts as a Virtual Personal Assistant. Its an intelligent software agent designed to have a back-and-forth conversational interaction with you as it helps you get tasks done.  The creation of Siri is a joint effort of designers and engineers pooled in from various all star organisations like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Motorola, Netscape, eBay, RealTravel, SRI, NASA, and Xerox PARC.

“In terms of long-term predictions, Siri is actually an easy bet.” – The New York Times.

“It’s the closest thing to a real assistant that you can talk to that I’ve ever seen.”- Vator News

To download this iPhone application visit :

http://siri.com/download/

For more details visit :

http://siri.com/

Today’s industry generates large volumes of data from all sectors such as  financial, retail,  factory, call centers, and customer products,  and so forth, SAS Analytics lets them realize the value within these growing volumes of data.

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Benefits:

It appeals to a broad group of business analysts and an operational employee because of it significantly reduces the “IT complexity” for non-statistically trained users. It has become a general-purpose data mining and statistical tool. RStat provides greater business benefits by enabling more employees at all levels in an organization to take advantage of a predictive solution and make better decisions. RStat 1.2 dramatically lowers the cost of predictive analytics. By fully integrating RStat with WebFOCUS, customers benefit from significantly lower costs of mining projects simply by providing efficient access to data. Ninety percent of costs in statistical and mining projects are in data access and manipulation — two activities that are easier with BI tools. Additionally, the integration on the reporting server lowers deployment costs by minimizing the need for additional hardware. Instead of having a statistical server and a BI server, RStat 1.2 enables customers to conduct both BI and predictive modeling from a single server. Having this type of integrated environment makes the deployment of a predictive scoring solution much simpler and faster than older statistical systems. Information Builders is providing RStat free for modeling and analysis services as part of its Developer Studio product.

What’s NEW:

The new features provided in this tool are:-

– Survival analysis – included as an additional statistical modeling technique and scoring routine with both COX regression and Kaplan-Mayer.

– Library of scoring routines – expanded to advanced models such as Neural Networks.

– Charting capabilities – expanded with new charts that are relevant for survival analysis.

– Testing – Traditional hypothesis testing methods, such as T and F tests, have also been added.

Website:

www.informationbuilders.com

DOWNLOAD:

http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/

If you are an existing Information Builders customer and you have a standard Developer Studio (version 7.6.9 or higher) license, click here to download your free copy of WebFOCUS RStat now! Just log in and select Download > My Downloads/Shipments. Registration is required.

About ‘INFORMATION BUILDERS:

Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. The company’s comprehensive enterprise product offerings give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs. Information Builders’ customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. More information is available at informationbuilders.com.

Also Lets listen to Chris Brady of DSC on WebFOCUS:

[webFOCUS]

The new Tweet-o-Meter is used to measure and visualize the amount of tweets sent around different cities. This tool allows us to pull in every 30 km area of any urban area. At the moment, the system can visualize New York, London, Paris, Munich, San Francisco, Barcelona, Oslo, Tokyo, Rome, Moscow and Sydney.

Tweet-o-Meter mines the data for later analysis relating to furthering our understanding of social and temporal dynamics for e-social science within the twitter demographic. The research is undertaken at CASA, university college London as a part of a wider survey tool as part of the NeISS project being coded by Steven gray, in association with urban Tick and Digital Urban.

The Tweet-o-Meter currently in beta mode updates every 10 seconds by displaying the city with highest number of tweets. A wider ranging system is being launched as part of a free data collection service via NeISS in the next couple of months.

It would be really cool to have real time graphs below which show either a daily or an hourly trend of the twitting happening around the world.

Is it true that, “New York is the city that never sleeps!”? Do Londoners send more Tweets than New Yorkians’? Is Oslo a bigger Tweeter than Munich? Is Tokyo as much into Tweets as Barcelona? Has San Francisco calmed down after all that talk about the iPad? Tweet-o-Meter Knows! But when will the Tweet-O-Meter enlighten us on this information? We should eagerly wait and watch.

Click on the link to visualize Tweet-o-Meter:

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/tom/

Photograph: The Korea Herald/Asia News Network

Currently, only 50 out of the total 8,300 kindergartens across the Korea use robots. The Ministry of Education plans to provide 800 robots to kindergartens in underprivileged parts of the country tin 2010. “We plan to provide robots to kindergartens in the rural areas and encourage others to voluntarily use robots. We expect all kindergartens nationwide to use robots by 2013.”- Ministry official.

The BEST part of this program is that the kids and teachers love the idea of robots in the class. Not only the robots aid the teacher in reducing the time spent on checking student attendance, or checking whether students are active  or not, but also the students enjoy communicate with the robots through the robots speech and voice technology. The ministry has designated the state-run Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a main organization handling matters related to the establishment of the system.

[ASIAONE]

In recent years, Data Mining technology has been applied in the field of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to discover regularities from the experience accumulated in the past thousands of medicine years in China. Electronic medical records (or clinical records) of TCM, containing larger amount of information than, well-structured data of prescriptions extracted manually from TCM literature, such as information related to medical treatment process. This could be an important source for discovering valuable information. However, the information is collected by TCM doctors on a day to day basis without the support of authoritative editorial board, and owing to different experience and background of TCM doctors, the same concept might be described in several different terms. Therefore, clinical records of TCM cannot be used directly. This is were data mining come into play and aid medical transcription and translation industry. Data mining tools could empower such medical professionals to ease there job and also maintain the proper translation according to the medical domain, and help to pass down the knowledge to the next generations correctly.

WebMD is good, but what we also need is Medical Wikipedia which encompasses all the medical knowledge of previous thousand years, from across the world (Various races, places, religions, traditions), at one place.

Data mining is recognized as the pivotal technology for combating terrorism and ensuring security of the homeland. There is a lot of research taking place on data mining techniques such as link analysis, trend discovery, real time data mining, predictive analysis and more. Researchers are developing a series of new automated algorithms for discovering frequent patterns in terrorism databases and other information repositories.

An intelligent data mining software agent is an autonomous program designed to perform human like function over the Internet. These intelligent agents are responsible for filtering and organizing scattered data from unstructured web document. The area of text based searching, which is the integral part of crime related systems seems to be very close to its maturity. we should see more commercial systems implementing this super technology within next few years if not earlier!

In the recent news article, a technologist said ” add analytics on top of the data to strengthen data mining and its possible for patterns to emerge!” yes, it is definitely possible as these patterns could point out possible terrorists. Thus,  aiding the government efforts to keep the citizens safe and secure. Therefore, let the data miners move ahead to predict and analyze for a better future!

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Author: Randall Scott

Release Date: Jan 22, 2010

Website Release: Jan 22, 2010

Web page link: http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=978-1-4327-4936-1

Email Contact: http://www.prlog.org/email-contact.html?id=10504152

Genre: COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics

About the Author :-

Randall Scott is a retired Army Captain, Computer Scientist, and Assistant Professor. He holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a MS degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Scott has served as a Tactical Communications Engineer, Systems Engineer, Software Security Expert, and much more. He lives in Martinez, Georgia.

About Outskirts Press, Inc. :-

Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.

About the Book:-

A Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Visual Prolog by Randall Scott is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $25.95.

ISBN: 9781432749361 Format: 6.14 x 9.21 paperback SRP: $25.95

Prolog – which stands for “programming with logic” -is one of the most effective languages with a unique approach for building AI applications . Using Prolog you define a problem with logical Rules, and then set the computer loose on it instead of writing a program that spells out exactly how to solve a problem. This paradigm shift from Procedural to Declarative programming makes Prolog ideal for applications involving AI, logic, language parsing, computational linguistics, and theorem-proving. Now, Visual Prolog (available as a free download) offers even more with its powerful Graphical User Interface (GUI), built-in Predicates, and rather large provided Program Foundation Class (PFC) libraries. A Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Visual Prolog is an excellent introduction to both Prolog and Visual Prolog. Designed for newcomers to Prolog with some conventional programming background (such as BASIC, C, C++, Pascal, etc.), Randall Scott proceeds along a logical, easy-to-grasp path as he explains the beginnings of Prolog, classic algorithms to get you started, and many of the unique features of Visual Prolog. Readers will also gain key insights into application development, application design, interface construction, troubleshooting, and more. In addition, there are numerous sample examples to learn from, copious illustrations and information on helpful resources. A Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Visual Prolog is less like a traditional textbook and more like a workshop where you can learn at your own pace – so you can start harnessing the power of Visual Prolog for whatever your mind can dream up. Deftly constructed at 190 pages, A Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Visual Prolog is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, A Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Visual Prolog meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $25.95. Additionally, A Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Visual Prolog can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/aguidetoartificialintelligence

According to Mr. Andrew Clucas, Head of Poker at Microgaming Software Systems, “Concern has been rising over the long-term effect of third party software upon the poker industry as a whole, and in particular the negative effect it has on the recreational player demographic. The decision to put a stop to the practice of datamining on the Poker Network is part of Microgaming’s overarching network strategy to support operators in attracting and retaining recreational players. It further demonstrates commitment in providing a secure and fair playing environment.“

Microgaming software’s decision to withdraw data mining should level out the difficulty in playing field between talented amateurs and professionals.This decision will surely bring back the sportsman spirit back onto the table. Instead of the use of software tools, the talented players brain game will come into play and will be well appreciated. But will the game ultimately be called a fair one without such data mining?

[OnlineCasioReports]