How do you determine who is an expert in a field? Or if they are willing to answer questions for others? A new system that should do just that intrigues Steve Jones.  Read more...

How do you determine who is an expert in a field? Or if they are willing to answer questions for others? A new system that should do just that intrigues Steve Jones.  Read more...

Learn more about the new APIs for data mining in SQL Server 2005, and get an introduction to several common development scenarios.  Read more...

Describes how SQL Server 2005 Data Mining allows aggregation directly at the algorithm level. Although this restricts what the third-party algorithm developer can support in terms of language and data types, it frees the developer from having to implement data handling, parsing, meta data management, session, and rowset production code on top of the core data mining algorithm implementation.  Read more...

This SQL School video introduces us to the data mining queries that you can run from BIDS in an Analysis Services project.  Read more...

Learn how you can run a singleton data mining query against a cube with a mining model.  Read more...

This SQL School video explains how to use the Data Mining add-in for Excel 2007. The installation and configuration are covered.  Read more...

In this SQLSchool video, MVP Brian Knight shows us how to create a simple data mining model in Analysis Services.  Read more...

In this video MVP Brian Knight continues on with more advanced data mining using Excel.  Read more...

Excel has greatly helped ease the process of data mining. In this video MVP Brian Knight shows how you can start using the data mining add-ins for Excel to get started.  Read more...

In this video MVP Brian Knight explains how you can use the model viewers to see how the data mining task will process your data.  Read more...

Learn how you can use Microsoft Access 2007 as a basic data mining tool for exploring your valuable data. This article illustrates how data filters, pivot graphs, queries in graphs and filters in reports can help this cause.  Read more...

Customer interactions reveal important trends and patterns that can help a company design a website that effectively communicates and markets its products and services.   Read more...

In this new SQL School video, MVP Brian Knight shows us how to get started with data mining and Reporting Services retrieving data from an Analysis Services cube.  Read more...

This video covers lift charts, an advanced data mining feature in SQL Server 2008. MVP Brian Knight walks through a data mining example that tests a model with a lift chart.  Read more...

Get an overview of typical data mining problems and the tools and models that are available in SQL Server 2005 for solving these problems.  Read more...

This tip describes how to use text files as data sources for Data Mining  Read more...

This tip shows you how you can apply the cross-validation feature in the upcoming SQL Server 2008 release to estimate if the training set size is sufficient for a given model.  Read more...

Get a high-level overview of the benefits of the extensibility framework in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services that allows independent software developers to easily integrate new data mining algorithms into the product.  Read more...

This tip provides insight into the inner workings of the Microsoft Naive Bayes algorithm, showing how the algorithm computes the score used to filter out correlations.  Read more...