Monthly Archives: May 2012

CFP: the 10th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012)

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Yanchang Zhao

The Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia 5-7 December 2012 http://ausdm12.togaware.com/ Data mining, the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) insights, is now being actively applied in … Continue reading →

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An Example of Social Network Analysis with R using Package igraph

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Yanchang Zhao

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com This post presents an example of social network analysis with R using package igraph. The data to analyze is Twitter text data of @RDataMining used in the example of Text Mining, and it can be downloaded … Continue reading →

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Book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” on CRAN

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Yanchang Zhao

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com My book in draft titled “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” is now available on CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html. It is scheduled to be published by Elsevier in late 2012. Its latest version can be … Continue reading →

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A simple example of parallel computing on a Windows (and also Mac) machine

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Yanchang Zhao

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com With a Mac, parallel computing can be achieved with package multicore. Unfortunately, it does not work under Windows. A simple way for parallel computing under Windows (and also Mac) is using package snowfall, which can work … Continue reading →

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Online resources for handling big data and parallel computing in R

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Yanchang Zhao

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Compared with many other programming languages, such as C/C++ and Java, R is less efficient and consumes much more memory. Fortunately, there are some packages that enables parallel computing in R and also packages for processing … Continue reading →

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2nd round of call for chapter proposals for book Data Mining Applications with R: due by 31 May

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Yanchang Zhao

2nd CALL FOR CHAPTERS: proposals due by 31 May 2012 Data Mining Applications with R A book to be published by Elsevier http://www.RDataMining.com/books/book2 Introduction —————— R is one of the most widely used data mining tools in scientific and business … Continue reading →

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