Tag: data mining

Decision Trees in SAS Enterprise Miner and SPSS Clementine

Decision trees are included in SAS Enterprise Miner(EM). The counterpart is SPSS Clementine, which should be called IBM SPSS Modeler for precision after IBM’s acquisition of SPSS.
Recently I read a paper on the comparisons of SAS EM, SPSS Clementine and IBM Intelligent Miner on their decision tree and cluster technology:
Decision Tree Induction & Clustering Techniques […]

A SAS data miner without Enterprise Miner

SAS Enterprise Miner (EM) is indeed a fancy tool for a SAS programmer who wants to switch to the field of data mining. It is like the point-and-click camera: you drag several nodes onto the diagram, run it and everything is settled. And I was quite i…

Statistical Analysis for Better Tasting Wine

In this video, M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dr. Simon Sheather compares classification trees and logistic regression and discusses situations in which logistic regression is expected to outperform classification trees and vice ver…

The 7 Deadly Sins of Data Mining and How To Avoid Them

Our M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dick De Veaux from Williams College just finished his entertaining and informative presentation. He thoughtfully noted that our location (Las Vegas) is very appropriate for the subject of his pre…