Publications by Yanchang Zhao
RDataMining group having 6000 members today
RDataMining Group: http://group.rdatamining.com Twitter: @RDataMining Website: http://www.RDataMining.com The RDataMining group has 6000 members today, 5 July 2014. Created in August 2011, this group has developed into a big community with 6000 member within three years. Since its creation, many members have shared their knowledge and experiences...
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Slides of 12 tutorials at ACM SIGKDD 2014
Slides of 12 tutorials taught by data science experts and thought leaders at ACM SIGKDD 2014 are provided at http://www.kdd.org/kdd2014/tutorials.html. Below is a list of them. 1.Scaling Up Deep Learning Yoshua Bengio 2. Constructing and mining web-scale knowledge graphs Antoine Bordes, Evgeniy Gabrilovich 3. Bringing Structure to Text: Mining Ph...
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RDataMining Slides Series
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com I have made a series of slides on R and data mining, based on my book titled R and Data Mining — Examples and Case Studies. The slides will be used at my presentations at seminars to graduate students at Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT), prior to my keynote speech on Analysing Twitter Data with T...
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My visits and RDataMining talks in North America
RDataMining Talk at Twitter I visited Mexico recently and is now travelling in US. In the 1st week of October, I delivered a keynote talk at the CONAIS 2014 conference in Mexico, as well as a one-day workshop on data mining with R to students and researchers at UJAT. After that I visited Amazon in Seattle on 8 October and made a 2-hour seminar th...
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Call for participation: AusDM 2014, Brisbane, 27-28 November
********************************************************* 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014) Brisbane, Australia 27-28 November 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both prac...
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SBS documentary “The Age of Big Data”
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com “Data is becoming a powerful and most valuable commodity in 21st century. It is leading to scientific insights and new ways of understanding human behaviour. Data can also make you rich. Very rich.” — SBS documentary “The Age of Big Data” Last Friday, there was an interesting documentary on SBS, “The ...
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AusDM 2014 Conference Program
The Program of AusDM 2014 Conference is now available at http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/program. It features two keynote talks, one on Learning in Sequential Decision Problems by Prof Peter Bartlett from UC Berkeley, and the other on Making Sense of a Random World through Statistics by Prof Geoff McLachlan from University of Queensland. It also has a ...
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Free Stanford online course on Statistical Learning (with R) starting on 19 Jan 2015
This is an introductory-level course in supervised learning, with a focus on regression and classification methods. The syllabus includes: linear and polynomial regression, logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis; cross-validation and the bootstrap, model selection and regularization methods (ridge and lasso); nonlinear models, splin...
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Slides of keynote speeches, tutorials and panelist presentations at IEEE Big Data 2014
Slides of keynote speeches, tutorials and panelist presentations at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data can be found at the conference website at links below. (1) Keynote speech http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/keynotespeech.htm – Never-Ending Language Learning, Tom Mitchell – E. Fredkin University Professor, Machine L...
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R and Data Mining Workshop at AusDM 2014, Brisbane, 27 November
R and Data Mining Workshop at AusDM 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/workshop There will be a half-day workshop on R and Data Mining at the AusDM 2014 conference in Brisbane, Thursday afternoon, 27 November. The workshop will be composed of several sessions on data mining with R, including Introduction to Data Mining with R Association Rule Mining ...
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