#datamining (11 links)
- google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
A power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
- Hacker News | The Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software news.ycombinator.com
Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday.
- Welcome | ScraperWiki scraperwiki.com
All the tools you need for Screen Scraping & Data Mining.
- teach yourself datamining in 21 days « Armory Data Mining armorydatamine.wordpress.com
While it is important to understand how the algorithms work, it is not necessary to work the maths by hand. There are some first class freeware datamining programs available that do all the heavy lifting, so long as you know how to prepare the data and how to set the parameters of the algorithms so they produce valid results.
You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser.
- Factual factual.com
A platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of US restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of video game cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data.
- Infochimps Data Marketplace / Commons: Download Sell or Share Databases, statistics, data sets for free infochimps.org
An open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
- What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar radar.oreilly.com
Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.
Via russelldavies.
Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets.
- The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research research.microsoft.com
"The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." Free book from Microsoft Research.