The next meeting of the Edinburgh Local Group is on 11 May at 6pm in
Room H9 Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh.
David Hand is unfortunately unable to speak that evening because of
illness but Allan Gordon has kindly agreed to step in at short notice
to give his thoughts on data mining. David will give his talk next
session. The talk on Tuesday is preceded by the AGM but non-members
are welcome to attend.
Dr Allan GORDON (University of St Andrews) "Data mining: new name for
old activity"
With the growth in the size of data sets that are recorded and
stored electronically, there is a need to extract and summarize
information from large and complex multivariate data sets. Various
names have been used to describe a miscellaneous collection of
procedures that address this problem, a recent one being 'data
mining'. Similar concerns have motivated earlier work in
'classification', where this term has been taken to refer both to the
construction of classes of similar 'objects' and to the assignment of
objects to existing classes. Some relevant methodology is described.
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