data mining articles and how tos 306 Data Mining 2012-02-04T11:26:53 Karl Moneyman barry.david.adams@gmail.com ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-03T16:39:23

A record 7.65 million people submitted their tax returns online this year, 81% of the total number of tax returns filed, according to HMRC.

2bad7cdbe653dca236c94f0af9f2bf5f ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-03T16:08:19

Source: Ip IK et al, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 9(2) Content: Purpose The aim of this study was to assess whether an integrated imaging computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with embedded decision support for imaging can be accepted clinically. Methods The study was performed in a health care delivery network with an affiliated academic [...]

2c72a0b19edab5258c7f60021ae56de8 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-03T14:55:51

2012 will be a year of change and smarter working, with IT departments focused on improving processes and finding ‘new ways of doing things’, according to a survey by The Corporate IT Forum.

436ccddb0932f197e21c1a30fb3e99b8 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-03T14:33:31

Nick Gaines, formerly CIO at Volkswagen UK, has left the car firm to join Ultra Electronics Nuclear Control Systems.

5a03408c078dbfcd959c669e8e6370bc ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-03T14:20:44

Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR Content: “With cloud-based electronic health record systems becoming more popular, providers should carefully read their vendor contracts regarding their rights and use of their patients’ data, according to American Medical News. Gerard Nussbaum, director of technology services for the global management consulting firm Kurt Salmon Associates, tells amednews that since the [...]

49c4568816fb76f85579750a952b0222 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-03T13:57:33

St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.3m deal with EMC as part of its five-year plan to overhaul its storage infrastructure.

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In many ways, smartphones can be more secure operating platforms than PCs, but there is one major policy issue that needs to be dealt with first, writes John Pescatore, vice-president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.

f6ef672f53982c06625599b987b9fdca ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-03T09:10:06

The Metropolitan Police has blamed ‘human error’ for exposing the emails of more than 1,000 crime victims.

81597b5a160c3fcfe8dd50c86312fbbd Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-02-02T18:57:52

Briefly - I just saw that Reuters launched a site which connects the world of journalism with that of the social web: Reuters Social Pulse. This has similarities with what I've been experimenting with at the d8tplex news page which...

6992687b89267ce0af22f09644f0fe44 ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-02T18:00:46

Source: Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online Content: “Healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to not only address current or anticipated health problems with their patients, but also to help patients avoid future negative health consequences by teaching them how to care for themselves. Regular reinforcement increases the likelihood that patients will adhere to the [...]

c1373c950cec387eb66aa1f6d9156675 ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-02T14:44:49

Source: Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT Content: “Two health IT startups aim to help patients sift through the reams of adverse event data collected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. The two companies, AdverseEvents and Clarimed, have developed websites backed by algorithms that sort FDA adverse event [...]

870eb73ba2cb5f1fa77c0e8a6c95558c ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-02T14:40:00

Source: Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT Content: “Information silos in healthcare settings are a primary reason why available data often isn’t used to its fullest potential, concludes Russ Richmond, M.D., CEO of McKinsey Healthcare’s Objective Health consulting firm, in a new post that appears on The Health Care Blog. Such a failure to “connect the dots” Richmond says, [...]

93b3c940fe2183d24c7a899e8c1aef63 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T14:20:12

Boris Johnson says people should go to the pub to avoid massive rush-hour delays during the Olympics, but perhaps teleworking would be better for business

4ad4cccd9024608156aac904d22ef3a0 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T11:45:36

The smartphone – and tablet – revolution offers organisations new ways of performing their work and realising tangible benefits. They offer new paths to gain business and competitive advantage by creating new customer services and experiences, and they enhance operational access and flexibility. But these devices present one main problem: how to secure devices which were not necessarily designed and built with business use in mind, writes Adrian Davis, principal research analyst at the Information Security Forum (ISF).

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MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee say the government must do more to help the public understand how to stay safe online.

b5500d14af87eff08aa4a550b8d153ef ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-02T10:25:34

Source: Janet Dillione, Huffington Post Content: “The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated. I believe 2012 will be a substantial year for HIT progress on the adoption front, as well as on the innovation front — particularly as [...]

ac60ff78b2d77609b5914e5c329b882e ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T10:09:36

Cisco has unveiled details of the product line consolidation it hopes will turn around the company after its struggles with poor financial performance.

2c025fc18477fad17c18feda3c092b0a ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T10:00:48

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to make the right information available to the right people at the right time.

f38441ff236425f03194e51b9fb169f9 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T09:38:53

US anti-corruption authorities investigate mobile phone chip-maker Qualcomm’s compliance with the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

514e18b8385665dcfa869f4095d69d45 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T09:26:34

Facebook has filed for a $5bn initial public offering on the US stock market, marking a milestone in the social networking site’s history.

a24ccfed6154be79f667247f409c5c36 ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T08:00:10

At extreme scale, traditional data management and business intelligence become impractical and companies do not get what they demand — more insight to drive greater business performance.

6142f31f6a8985232685e6ab028dac28 Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-02-02T05:45:28

A minor update to the d8taplex news site has An updated set of journalist and editor author identities - now numbering over 500 An indication of the number of followers each tweeting author has An indication as to whether the...

9eac808b1432517f1b86db86062b4cfb ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-02T05:00:00

Adrian Drury, practice leader for IT consumerisation at Ovum, discusses device management

ac4ba149bbfe4a68fd2e34343622c9e7 ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-01T17:43:19

Source: Amy Corderoy, smh.com.au Content: “Electronic prescribing systems could drastically cut previously intractable hospital medication errors, a study of two Sydney hospitals has found. The federal government will begin rolling out an e-health system across the country in July, but it has been plagued by criticisms it would not reduce risks for patients and could be [...]

3653ff7de7a952ba0161811c93c336eb ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content 2012-02-01T15:07:33

Businesses are more confident in their IT systems' ability to survive a disaster, despite one of the most difficult years in 2011

d27364c7b6a77909991a14f584785b59 ICMCC » Articles 2012-02-01T09:30:25

Source: The Financial Content: “ISO has published a new technical specification which will increase protection of personal health information processed, stored and transferred by computer systems for subsequent use by clinicians and others in healthcare organizations, according to ISO. ISO/TS 14265:2011, Health informatics – Classification of purposes for processing personal health information, defines a set of [...]

f6ebbec65f7bd25a4f3a05be4e73723e Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-02-01T04:56:57

I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to compare, it was suggested to me to ask on Google+: I then waited...

7d319e50b986ab7dee2faf19b6fab215 ICMCC » Articles 2012-01-31T18:28:02

Source: Kim Bandura, The Morehead News Content: “Technology will be playing a bigger role in patient care than ever before. Healthcare professionals and their related associates have been mandated by the federal government to abide by “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMR) by the end of 2014. EMR is the electronic version of the paper medical [...]

2546f34310053260e9475daa960c783e Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-29T16:49:07

Google New - which aggregates, clusters and ranks news articles from many sources - recently started including links to the Google+ profiles of journalists. Here we see an example of a link to Shayndi Raice who, with Randall Smith, wrote...

c2eff01e6422062aa1268528821774cd Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-29T02:48:22

I found this data mining error on Silo Breaker somehow amusing: The article does mention McDonalds in comparison to Facebook, but Silo Breaker didn't figure out that the article wasn't about McDonalds per se.

4cdb677e5ae0ea21bea7d9a3cc052867 Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-27T02:37:21

By far the biggest story right now according to clicks on the bit.ly links to articles published by Reuters (as shown on d8taplex) is: This story doesn't make it on to Google News front page or even their page of...

29466f87c261e400df0f53b78a32625b Data Mining Research 2012-01-25T18:38:23

Today, Eric Greenwood, expert in data storage, is our guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Thanks for his post and feel free to comment about his input. Data Mining, Refining, and Storage As companies are able to more effectively store and retrieve information via online storage services, the relevance of data mining as the crucial first step [...]

8f79a50704b2948ed8864408e446d43d Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-24T02:06:45

A simple list of articles may tell you that the ones at the top are 'more something' (relevant, popular, etc.) than those lower, but not by how much. I just noticed on the d8taplex news page that this article, entitled...

6a492181155c7330d56ce833ff64be57 Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-23T04:49:44

I'm watching the bit.ly counts for Reuters story on the RIM guard change continue to jump up on the d8taplex news page. Because the d8taplex page links to the Twitter accounts of the journalists when they are available, I took...

2a9516f666640442112678d00db0324f Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-22T18:41:01

By filtering on a contributors name (in the example below, I've filtered on the enigmatic Cynthia Johnston) the d8taplex news page can instantly show to what degree the contributors articles are getting attention (according to bit.ly stats). Here we see...

280cefeff4ae8e3369c90d713dbc94ce Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media 2012-01-21T00:15:14

In experimenting with news aggregation and mining on the d8taplex site, I've come up with the following questions: Why are some news articles picked up and others not? News sources such as Reuters create articles that are either directly consumed...

8b39fb69e673c160586835d10e9366ba Data Mining Research 2012-01-16T16:54:09

I recently read the last book from James Taylor, Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. As a data miner, I was interested by the subtitle of the book. Although, the book is really well written, I’m a bit disappointed regarding the content for someone in analytics. I was [...]

a2c2a2bf13d35c95378d3af98a3393b5 Data Mining Research 2012-01-08T20:52:52

It is my pleasure to welcome two new data mining blogs in the data mining blogosphere. I have of course added them to the data mining big list of blogs: Inside Data Mining: Blog written by the two authors of the excellent Data Mining Techniques in CRM, Antonios Chorianopoulos and Konstantinos Tsiptsis. The blog is about [...]

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