Posts Tagged ‘Data Mining’

RCOMM 2010: Rapid Miner Conference

Friday, July 16th, 2010

RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference – RCOMM 2010

As RapidMiner has once again proved to be the most-used open source data mining tool among the community of data analysts world-wide in a recent poll, it is now the time to give a face to that community. Therefore, Rapid-I hosts the first RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference (RCOMM 2010) and invites users and developers of RapidMiner to take part and share their RapidMiner experiences with other members of the community. The RCOMM 2010 intends to intensify the community life and strengthen the RapidMiner network by bringing together users and developers of RapidMiner from all backgrounds, may they be scientific or commercial, from the whole variety of applications and from all grades of knowledge. A vital exchange of ideas, application reports, and scientific results will help beginners to advance and will inspire the already advanced leading them to professionalism. Users will profit from in-depth knowledge of developers, who in turn will gain from picking up requirements and ideas for further development.

The RCOMM 2010 encompasses conference talks, in which invited lecturers will discuss aspects of state-of-the-art data mining with RapidMiner. A Call-for-Papers will be issued for those who would like to present their work in that scope. Workshops will be held to give participants a hands-on experience concerning several topics regarding RapidMiner usage. Additionally, attendees of the RCOMM 2010 will also have the option to participate in several courses given by professional RapidMiner consultants in the surrounding of the user meeting.

Dates & Deadlines:
Submission Deadline:August 6, 2010
Notification of Acceptance:August 13, 2010
Camera-ready Papers:August 20, 2010
Conference: September 13 – 16, 2010

Visit Conference Home: RCOMM
Registration Link: Registration
Schedule Link: Schedule

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Watson! Dear Watson!

Monday, June 21st, 2010

For the last few years, IBM scientists have been developing the most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed by the user, and is expected to respond with a precise answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Google and Bing do, which is merely point to a set of results where you might find the answer. But Watson has to give the correct answer itself. Lets look at Watson in a trivia challenge:

[ MSNBC ]

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Future Technology Research from Intel on Display

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Photo by James Martin/CNET

Future Technologies Group, part of Intel Labs, are researchers who research into technology which humans could use in the future. Recently they did conduct a display of some of the ongoing research, which is more like a open house event. Some interesting next generation projects are as follows:

  • Highly accurate facial-recognition system
  • Personal energy system
  • Interactive Digital Aura
  • ClassmateAssist
  • Summarize (Text to Speech Software)
  • Augmented Image Reality

[More at CNET]

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Hospitals are being empowered with data mining for better patient payments

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Yes, Hospitals are now keenly observing their customers! Yes, not only watching over the patiences and saving lifes, but also at the after process where the client could potential be a back burner during payments, and need to be chased down the road for bill payments.

The goal of the process is to catch the patients before they leave the hospital, help them realize the various options with respect to payments, and avoid chasing them later. The billing software companies are helping hospitals by providing information on patients who have enough assets to make payments.

“We know that 30 percent of the population won’t pay because they can’t afford to, and 30 percent will pay, said Stephen Mooney, president of Conifer’s Revenue Cycle Solutions unit in Frisco, Tex. His company aims to identify the remaining 40 percent who have some assets but need help figuring out whether and how they can afford their bill” –  BusinessWeek

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