Shake, rattle and roll ...

I’ve been using Graham Williams’ “rattle” package in R.

What a great piece of software!

Not without the occasional bug, but Graham has been exceptionally responsive to fixing these, which is the kind of service that comes only infrequently (most notably otherwise, of course, from the guys at Q www.q-researchsoftware.com)

Here’s the in-line R command to get the latest version …

install.packages("rattle", repos="http://rattle.togaware.com")

And if you go to Graham’s website www.togaware.com you can download substantial drafts of his book  Data Mining Desktop Survival Guide (ISBN 0-9757109-2-3).  The book (also published in full by Springer Verlag) is a data mining goldmine (ha ha).

Do not read if easily offended ...

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html

And this one is even funnier .... :-) 

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html



btw did you note my misuse of the ellipsis-that-isn't for my colleague Irene ?

What Google says about data mining ...

“So what’s getting ubiquitous and cheap? Data. And what is complementary to data? Analysis. So my recommendation is to take lots of courses about how to manipulate and analyze data: databases, machine learning, econometrics, statistics, visualization, and so on.” Professor Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, speaking to the New York Times in February 2009.

Source: http://datamining.togaware.com/