Keith McCormick

I must have missed this article in my web searching.  Someone pointed it out to me. I am a fan of Dorian Pyle's book. See my book review section for details and a link.
In the meantime, try this:
http://www.ibmdatabasemag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17602328 

Cluster Analysis is the "search for homogeneous subsets". I am quoting Kachigan's definition. His book does a fine job of explaining the distance based kinds of cluster analysis (please see my review). In this post, I just want to send you to URLs that provide a fun way of understanding WHY you would want to […]

I just received a comment today regarding a blog post. I also made another today. Go ahead and visit the actual sites.
 Be. Do. Learn and move on. - Why SPSS is evil
 Michael Voong » Blog Archive » SPSS is Bad. Really Bad
The comment on the previous post on my site deserves a full reply. Having […]

I hope this review encourages more SPSS fans to overcome the fear of making the leap to Mac. I took the precaution of installing both versions (PC and Mac) on my MacBook Pro since I have ready access to both versions, but honestly I never use SPSS on the PC partition. I systematically avoid the […]

The following link is just another example of the great information that is to be found out on the web regarding SPSS. The real credit goes to SPSSX-L as this is where I noticed the link.
http://ssc.utexas.edu/consulting/answers/faqs.html#SPSS 
 
 

 
Everybody who writes about Data Mining has to get around to formally defining it at one point or another. 
 
Data Mining is the search of data, accumulated during the normal course of doing business, in order to find and confirm the existence of previously unknown relationships that can produce positive and verifiable outcomes through the deployment […]

I have been reading up on Six Sigma. I think there are real opportunities for more data mining on six sigma projects. A bit of confusion arises when experts in each of these areas meet, and I am starting to understand the source of the confusion.
The core principle of the Six Sigma process is the […]