Publications by Yanchang Zhao
R and Data Mining – Examples and Case Studies now in Chinese
My book titled R and Data Mining – Examples and Case Studies now has its Chinese version, translated by researchers at South China University of Technology, and published by China Machine Press in September 2014. It is sold in China only, at a price of RMB 49 Yuan. If you are in China, it is an opportunity to get a copy of the book at a bargain...
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Recordings of RStudio Webinar Series on Essential Tools for Data Science with R
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com RStudio recently ran a series of live webinars on Essential Tools for Data Science with R, but it is inconvenient for people from other time zones to attend. Fortunately, the recordings have been made available online, which you can watch if you have attended the live webinars. Below is a list of recordings. 1. T...
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Canberra IAPA Seminar – Text Analytics: Natural Language into Big Data – 17 February
Topic: Text Analytics: Natural Language into Big Data Speaker: Dr. Leif Hanlen, Technology Director at NICTA Date: Tuesday 17 February Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start Cost: Nil Where: SAS Offices, 12 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT 2600 Registration URL: http://www.iapa.org.au/Event/TextAnalyticsNaturalLanguageIntoBigData Abstract: We outline several ac...
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Free online data mining and machine learning courses by Stanford University
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Three free online data mining and machine learning courses lectured by professors at Stanford University started in past two weeks, which provide excellent opportunities to learn advanced data mining and machine learning techniques. If you are interested, be quick to join and they are still open. 1. Machine Learn...
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UIUC free online courses on data mining starting on 9 Feb, lectured by Prof. Jiawei Han et al.
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com A series of free online data mining courses will start on 9 Feb 2015, lectured by Prof. Jiawei Han and several other staff at UIUC. Prof. Han is one of the top data mining researchers around the world, and has authored “Data Mining: Concepts and Technique”, one of the most popular data mining textbooks. Do no...
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CFP: 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015)
The 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) Sydney, Australia, 8-9 August 2015 co-located with SIGKDD’15 URL: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/ Join us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and rese...
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Hadoop and Neo4j
Hadoop is being widely used for processing big data and Neo4j is a popular open-source graph database. When doing social network analysis on big data, a “natural” thought is to use them together. Unfortunately, Neo4j cannot work directly on HDFS or HBase. Is it good to use them together for social network analysis of big data? If yes, any pro...
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Seminar of IAPA Canberra Chapter: Big Data in the Social Sciences, Wednesday 29 April
Date: Wednesday 29 April Time: 5.45pm for a 6pm start Cost: Nil Where: SAS Offices, 12 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT 2600 RSVP link: http://www.iapa.org.au/Event/ACTChapterEvent29AprilBigDataInSocialSciences Join us for our next ACT Chapter Event on the 29th of April. We have guest speaker Robert Ackland presenting on Big Data in the Social Science...
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AusDM 2015 submission deadline extended to Thursday 30 April
The 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) Sydney, Australia, 8–9 August 2015 (co-located with SIGKDD’15) URL: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/ The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. It is devoted to the art and science o...
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R and Data Mining workshop at Deakin University
I will run a workshop on R and Data Mining for students in the Master of Business Analytics course at Deakin University in Melbourne on Thursday 28 May. The workshop will cover: – Introduction to Data Mining with R and Data Import/Export in R – Data Exploration and Visualization with R – Regression and Classification with R – Data Cluster...
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