The following sites on the internet offer information ranging from news about the business intelligence community, the techniques of data mining, trends in application of data mining, professionals in this industry and their views on finding solutions, the business case for data mining and its infrastructure.

Mining Data Warehouse

• Ftiweb an international business IT consulting specialize in Business Intelligence, Data warehouse, Data Management and also provide various IT related consulting as Data Management, BPO, Web content management and corporate training.

www.thearling.com

• Kurt Thearling, currently Director of Advanced Data Mining at Capital One, offers a broad range of content; expository articles on the craft of data mining, descriptions of its applications, reviews of books written on the subject, related technological changes, legal issues and its strategic back drop. This site has links to some excellent material available elsewhere on the Internet.



• Widely credited for the quality of its content, this site provides a big picture of the data mining profession and leads a professional on to more specialized resources.

www.kdnuggets.com

• This is a data mining portal especially useful for its information on comparisons of data mining software. In general, this site has a wealth of information for data mining professionals with a slant towards techniques, data mining conferences, courses and training and consulting companies in the industry.

www.marketingnpv.com

• Focused on marketing, this on-line magazine is a rich resource with a focus on the actors in the data mining industry. This site is replete with information on the experiences of individual companies using data mining techniques and professionals in the direct marketing industry. It is particularly useful for marketing professionals looking to implement data base marketing in their own companies

www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awm/tutorials/

• This site is created by Andrew Moore, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and reviews the major techniques, including the more advanced methods, used in the data mining industry. The information is relevant for a more advanced user of data mining techniques.

www.the-data-mine.com/

• This site is organized as an open on-line community, a watering hole for professionals, companies and content providers in this industry. Registered users are permitted to edit the content and add their own. This site has copious resources ranging from tutorials, journals, companies, professionals and other sources of information on data mining available around the world.

www.businessintelligence.com

• This site is an excellent source for news about the business intelligence and data mining community.

www.emetrics.org/articles.html

• This is an excellent source of information about the field of web analytics or the methods used to understand what motivates visitors to web sites to buy after they have viewed the pages on a web site.

http://www.dmreview.com/

• A leading trade magazine, this site publishes features on business intelligence and analytics software with a focus on the vendors.

www.intelligententerprise.com/

• Another trade magazine, focused on the needs of the users of business intelligence software and their business goals.

www.datawarehousingonline.com/

• An on-line magazine, this site has a slant towards the infrastructure aspects of data mining, i.e., the data warehouses required to aggregate information from diverse sources.

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