Reed Me : data mining

More upcoming webcasts

reedme — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:44 GMT

If you're intrigued by data mining or wonder how your SQL Server certifications will be affected, these are for you:

TechNet Webcast: Mastering Time Series Prediction with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining (Level 300), Thursday, Jan. 24, 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Building and Validating Advanced Mining Models with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining (Level 200), Thursday, Jan. 31, 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Pacific Time

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 1), Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time

I refrain from making any inappropriate Patriot Act or NSA jokes at this time. Heh.

Nominate your SQL Server wins for the 2008 TDWI Best Practices Awards!

reedme — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:11:10 GMT

Vote early and often for your favorite implementations on your favorite platform! (Hint: your favorite platform is SQL Server.)

Have you completed a data warehouse or business intelligence implementation that you think other organizations could learn from? Would you like some recognition for your accomplishment? Are you a vendor with successful customers who deserve recognition?
2008 TDWI Best Practices Awards

Although I'm working up a proposal for my own SQL Server 2008-oriented contest, I would *love* to SQL Server sweep all of these categories!

Enterprise Data Warehousing
Customer Intelligence
Dashboards and Scorecards
Enterprise BI
Operational BI
Data Governance
Master Data Management
BI/DW on a Limited Budget
Predictive or Text Analytics
Radical Business Intelligence
Government and Non-Profit

I worked on many, many engagements with customers and partners over the last year or so [before I left the field for the product team] who (I think) should be solid winners in many of these categories. You know who you are!

Data mining from casinos to counterterrorism...

reedme — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:42:48 GMT

I guess DHS has figured out that bad guys are bad guys and existing expertise and technology probably will translate from fraud prevention to terrorism prevention.

Casinos have tried to use facial-recognition software to identify known cheats in real time, but with little success. Casino lighting is often dim, and a player who wants to conceal his identity can hide behind a hat, sunglasses or a false beard.

But in a few years, some say, iris-scan technology will be mature enough to use in gaming. Casinos might ask people to sit for a scan of the iris, which, like a fingerprint, has a unique pattern. That pattern would be transformed into a template to be matched against a database.
From Casinos to Counterterrorism (washingtonpost.com)

Data mining retinal scans and RFID flow to track betting sounds like a rather cool gig!