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Re:How I Data Mined the top 300 paids apps to create Tehula'... by p_sherman on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @01:38PM (#4286868)
Remember when data mining used to mean 3 000 000 records....
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Re:How I Data Mined the top 300 paids apps to create Tehula'... by Locke1689 on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @01:49PM (#4286951)
In some ways, a smaller data set is harder to deal with than a larger one. For example, the surprising effectiveness of Bayesian statistical analysis is mostly due to the huge amount of data you have to throw at it.
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Re:How I Data Mined the top 300 paids apps to create Tehula'... by p_sherman on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @10:15PM (#4289062)
On the other hand, with 300 records you can grab a pad and a pencil, and manually tick blue, yellow, blue...
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