SPSS Launches Enhanced Predictive Analytics Platform

I have not tried this product yet, but SPSS tend to have good products in predictive modeling.

The Advantages of Smart Data Mining

Good general article about data mining in the retail and POS indsutry. Free registration required.

Data-mining moves into the mainstream, in search of profit

good general article about how data mining is moving into different fields.

General Healthcare Data Mining Model

We went into production on May 7 with our General Healthcare Data Mining Model. Our metrics comparison (without giving intellectual property away) is as follows:

Metric 1 - 5.15% (old) with new model 20.3%

Metric 2 - 6.06% (old) with new model 53.4%

Right now we are fine tuning the model, and reducing our findings to a writing since we must make sure that we have good documentation. We processed over 396 million claims in a 4.7 TB environment (SQL Server 2005). We can refresh every month right now and the goal is to refresh once a week in the next couple of months.

The model can be used in healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries.

Doctors test gene therapy to treat blindness

this is the type of therapy that once there is a single success is going to revolutionize the way that we look at data mining in the health care field.