Data mining is an analytical process designed to explore and analyze large data sets to discover meaningful patterns, correlations and insights. It involves using sophisticated data analysis tools to ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data. A self-organizing map (SOM) is a data structure that can be used ...

If you work in science, chances are you spend upwards of 50% of your time analyzing data in one form or another. Data analysis is such a large and complex field however, that it's easy to get lost ...

Text clustering is a text mining technique used to group text documents into groups (or clusters) based on similarity of content. This organization (i.e. clustering) is so as to make documents more ...

Almost 10 percent of U.S. residents now receive their healthcare from an accountable care organization.1 The momentum toward outcome-based reimbursement is starting to approach the tipping point. As ...