Keith McCormick

The KDnuggets poll has a dramatic showing for Clementine fans. 116 of 534 respondents use Clem.
 http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2007/data_mining_software_tools.htm
Perhaps more striking is that it the strongest performer of those that use it as their only tool, so it earns high scores for comprehensiveness. A finding that I have seen in this poll before and that has puzzled […]

I just discovered that several of the SPSS Directions conference presentations are available on the web. A company named StreamCenter has a very convienient interface, and much of the content is well worth watching. I have seen three versions of the Jack Noonan keynote, but if you haven't seen it you should. The basic idea is to define "Predictive Analytics" […]

I think the team in the Texas A&M Stats department have done a great job in putting together this material, and providing it free on the web.  One caution is that is seems to be version 10.0.
I personally find that listening to all of them would be a bit rough in that you are just […]

I found a blog that had some recent and interesting SPSS posts.  I have added it to my "blogroll"
http://www.marketresearchtech.com/tag/spss
I have posted that I had a chance to go to Prague, but my posts have not been half as complete as this one!  One of the reasons I added this new blog is that there is a […]

I would like to thank Seth Grimes for chairing a great meeting, and for his comment regarding the related yahoo group on my first related post.  Here is a link about the meeting (and future meetings).
http://www.textanalyticsnews.com/
 And here is a link to http://intelligententerprise.com/ where Seth is a columnist.
 

I have purchased two easy, basic SPSS books.  They are both popular.  One is Pallant's "Surviving SPSS".  The other is Andy Field's.  I prefer the Field book.  Both have been brought to class by participants.  I will be writing complete reviews. One thing that concerns me is that these books are often REALLY out of […]

I just returned from the Text Analytics Summit.  I will be making more than one post on this, but I was struck by the diveristy of the tools represented by the vendors.  I am a data miner, so only some of the tools are in line with my typical activity.  Having said that, it was […]

In anticipation of 16.0 release later this year, I am very intrigued with R.  I just found this link.  Let me know what you think. I haven't jumped in yet, but it seems very helpful.
http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf 

I joined a UK based consultancy named Overbeck Analytics (OAL) several months ago, but just today my portion of the website is finalized including a link back to this site.  I am proud to join an excellent team.  More on OAL in the future!
http://www.overbeckanalytics.de
http://www.overbeckanalytics.de/?id=453
 

I just got back from the Europe SPSS user's conference.  A number of new things are planned for 16.0 that were publically revealed at the conference.  Perhaps the most interesting was a third language to be available in the syntax window through the "revolution" that began with 14.0.  The popular stats language R will be […]