Thoughts on the Science of Computing

Typically in data mining you are looking for patterns in data that has already been collected and saved.  In essence, you are looking back in time to discern patterns to either explain what happened or to make future predictions based on that information.But Read More

A new ACM conference, WSDM2008, just finished up this week on Web Search and Data Mining.  I would have loved to attend but was unable to.  For those who are interested in the papers from this conference you can find them here. Read More