Rittman Mead Blog - Data Mining

Statistical Analysis in the Database

My first ever presentation at the UKOUG conference (long before I started working with Mark Rittman and Jon Mead) was an introduction to analytic functions. Since then analytics have remained a key part of my work as a DW developer; many of the processes that I have implemented would be

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Looking at the unstructured

Curt Monash has been talking about text mining [http://www.dbms2.com/2007/10/05/the-four-horsemen-of-data-warehousing/] a lot this week, he also notes [http://www.dbms2.com/2007/10/05/the-four-horsemen-of-data-warehousing/] that, from a text point of view, that the four preeminent database vendors (data store not query tool) are

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Data-centric BI trends

I managed to miss Mark Rittman's recent keynote addresses in two locations this week, but I did take a look at the slide deck and the blog [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/10/05/five-oracle-bi-trends-for-the-future/] post. Mark is making five very sound points on the Oracle BI

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Brighton Werewolves

Data miners at Sussex police [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6723911.stm] have noticed a correlation between violent incidents and a full moon and based on this fact deploy more police on the streets of Brighton at times of peak lunar brightness. Well it makes a

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Writing it large and reading it big

Yesterday I ungraciously forgot to mention Nuno Souto's blog piece [http://dbasrus.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-moore-part-2.html] from January where he was talking about just the same sort of issues with access to massive databases. Please go and read Noons' work, it is well worth it.

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Thoughts on extremely large databases and searching the unstructured

Nuno Souto posts an interesting set of thoughts on Extremely Large Databases [http://dbasrus.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-moore-part-2.html]. As usual, it is a well thought through post from someone who is probably scarred for life from actually working with large databases. In a data warehouse (or even a