Session writeups for ACM data mining unconference

I wound up being the scribe for two sessions at this past Sunday’s ACM data mining unconference.

The first session was on open/public datasets, which are very useful for people working on data mining algorithms.

The second session (last one of the day) was on open source data mining tools. Lots of people at this one, with a nice demo on KNIME and a good discussion of the R language pros/cons for data mining tasks.