The Data Mining Forum (v2)

Hello, I am interested in my hobbies to try to predict the outcome of sports like horse races, basketball games and MMA fights. Is there any good models or starting point to get me started? I am also wondering if we can get accurate models? And has anyone succeeded to get some good results or even g...

Hello there,
I would like to hear about your experiences of applying to PhD programs in the USA.

Is it complicated to get accepted? How much documents and preparation is needed?
Did you or your friends have succeeded?

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How many years do you guys believe it will take before we reach something that could be called artificial general intelligence. If you dont know it means some intelligence that can do multiple things rather than being focused on a single task... a little bit like humans. My guess is that we are mayb...

I dont know if you all watch the news but it seems nowadays more and more unlikely that Musk will buy Twitter. In my opinion, he is trying to lower the price of Twitter by talking about bots, and might still buy it, but who really knows? But from the technological perspective, I dont know what MUSK ...

An issue sometimes in my life is procrastination. I think a lot of students and staff suffer from this problem. Sometimes, I want to write a paper but I cannot stop pushing back the task to another day, and finally sometimes I do very few things for several days. Then I feel guilty about this... How...

But data mining and data science, is there a difference? I see many people talking about the data science nowadays instead of the data mining. Please let me know what is the difference if any.

I would like to learn more about the big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, etc., and also about the fundamental data mining techniques. Anyone has the good recommendations for the books on these topics? The books should be preferably either computer science related or more like math / statistics...

Here is another conference SIMBIG 2022 9th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/index.html#important-dates August 05, 2022 Full and short papers due September 09, 2022 Notification of acceptance October 07, 2022 Camera-ready versions due Novem...

I found that FPGRowth is so much faster than Apriori when I tried the code. Now i am trying to understand FPGrowth... it is faster but unfortunately much more complicated. I am looking for the tutorial on FPGrowth