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Feb 10, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: Datamining, Analytics, Data Dredging, Database Analytics, Datamine, Data-mining DEFINITION: Data dredging, sometimes referred to as "data fishing" is a data mining practice in which large volumes of data are analyzed seeking any possible relationships between data. The traditional scientific method, in contrast, begins with a hypothesis and follows with an examination of the data. Sometimes conducted for unethical purposes, data dredging often circumvents traditional data mining … Definition continues below.
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Videocast: Gotchas That Can Get Ya in 2012: Critical Issues in Supporting Self-Service BI sponsored by Actuate WEBCAST: During this webcast, Claudia Imhoff, of Intelligent Solutions, and Jeff Morris, of Actuate, will discuss the top issues that business intelligence (BI) implementers must tackle to create a sustainable and maintainable self-service BI environment in 2012. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Premiered: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Reporting Software

Big Data Analytics: Profiling the Use of Analytical Platforms in User Organizations sponsored by MarkLogic ANALYST REPORT: Access this comprehensive research report by Wayne Eckerson to further your knowledge of big data and the way analytics are evolving. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining

How CIOs can use big data for long term success sponsored by Dell, Inc. EGUIDE: Although large data sets contain valuable business insights, they are often difficult for CIOs to manage. This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com underscores the need for CIOs to make use of this information and describes new technologies that can assist them in their efforts. Posted: 03 Feb 2012 \| Published: 03 Feb 2012 TOPICS: CIOs \| Cloud Computing \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Storage \| Health Care Industry \| Productivity

Does Data Modeling Still Matter, Amid the Market Shift to XML, NoSQL, Big Data, and the Cloud? sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the market shift from data modeling to XML, NOSQL, big data and the cloud, and whether data modeling has a purpose in today's data management market. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Data Warehouses \| Databases

5 reasons for data discovery: Why BI data discovery tools are coming of age sponsored by NeutrinoBI WHITE PAPER: This paper details five reasons there is a shift to data discovery tools for business intelligence (BI) tool kits. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Databases

Dashboard Software Buyers Guide sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: Read this dashboard software buyer's guide to learn what to look for when selecting data visualization software for your business intelligence (BI). Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Visualization \| Data Visualization Software

Freedom from Facets: Discovering the data you really need sponsored by NeutrinoBI WHITE PAPER: This paper by Dr. Barry Devlin, renowned business intelligence (BI) expert and founder of 9sight Consulting, discusses the new free-form search techniques that business users are now taking advantage of for more valuable business insight. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Database Management \| Databases

The Future of Digital Measurement and Personalization Final sponsored by Celebrus Technologies. WHITE PAPER: This white paper from Semphonic president, Gary Angel, explains the challenges of warehousing Web analytics data and its limitations for marketing purposes, especially if real-time personalization is the aim. He then looks at Celebrus Technologies—a system which assists with building a digital measurement infrastructure. Posted: 30 Jan 2012 \| Published: 30 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses \| Database Architectures

Gartner 2011 Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: This white paper features results of a survey conducted by Gartner. The survey asked business intelligence (BI) leaders to explain their experiences with BI platforms from 25 vendors Posted: 27 Jan 2012 \| Published: 27 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Warehouses \| Databases

Traditional vs. Agile BI sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the fundamentals of traditional business intelligence (BI) platforms and why traditional BI no longer works with today's market. It then details how BI platforms have changed to become more agile and lightweight. Read on to further your understanding of BI and what the main debate is with traditional versus agile BI. Posted: 27 Jan 2012 \| Published: 27 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Database Management \| Databases

Speeding up BI and analytics: Real-time analytics business cases and challenges sponsored by Starview Inc. EBOOK: This e-book offers IT, business intelligence (BI) and analytics managers tips on building a business case for real-time analytics and also for avoiding potential pitfalls that can trip you up during the implementation stage. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing & BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior business intelligence (BI) faster, the characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling and how to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Center Networking \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses \| Databases

Data Warehousing 2.0- Modeling and Metadata Strategies for Next Generation Architectures sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how the data warehouse, metadata and modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years — and what you need to do to leverage it for your business, the major components of DW 2.0 architectures, and key modeling and metadata management strategies for DW 2.0. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses

Enterprise Reporting Sound Step to Performance Managements sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Information Management

Forrester Wave: Open Source Business Intelligence sponsored by Actuate ANALYST REPORT: Need to compare open source business intelligence (BI) technologies and understand which vendor leads the pack? Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT is named the leader due to its richness of reporting functionality. Posted: 17 Jan 2012 \| Published: 17 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Metrics \| Open Source BI \| Reporting Software

ISVs Accelerate Their Applications with BIRT and ActuateOne sponsored by Actuate WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper and learn how ISVs are leveraging Actuate and BIRT technology to deliver interactive functionality, customizable dashboards and rich visualization capabilities to their users. Posted: 17 Jan 2012 \| Published: 17 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Visualization \| Open Source BI \| Reporting Software

#1 BI system for SaaS providers and ISVs sponsored by Actuate CASE STUDY: Learn why six leading software companies are now embedding BIRT into their product for highly customizable, visually rich data analysis and reporting rather than choosing to develop tools of their own. Posted: 16 Jan 2012 \| Published: 16 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Application Development \| Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Open Source BI

A holistic view of customer analytics for maximizing selling opportunities sponsored by Infor CRM ANALYST REPORT: This report explores how best-in-class companies take a holistic approach to providing a complete, accurate and integrated view of customers to improve satisfaction and retention without losing sight of customer profitability. Posted: 13 Jan 2012 \| Published: 13 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CRM \| Customer Data Management \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining

Five Levels of Embedded BI: From Static to Analytic Applications sponsored by Jaspersoft EBOOK: This e-book explains the five most common levels of engagement you can achieve by embedding business intelligence (BI). Posted: 20 Dec 2011 \| Published: 20 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Embedded Databases

In-Memory Analysis Delivering Insights at the Speed of Thought sponsored by BeyeNETWORK RESEARCH CONTENT: In this exclusive research report, Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research for Business Applications and Architecture at TechTarget and renowned business intelligence (BI) expert, discusses the recent changes in the BI market as well as the future of BI technologies. Posted: 15 Dec 2011 \| Published: 15 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Metrics \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Databases

Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses

Exadata: Consolidating Database Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation VIDEOCAST: This video explains how Oracle Exadata Storage Servers use a massively parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage to overcome the limitations of conventional storage. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Premiered: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Mining \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| OLTP

Oracle Exadata Storage Server X2-2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing (DQP) by offloading database query processing to the storage layer. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Query Tools

Online Data Warehousing Assessment Tool sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This tool offers you a better understanding of your organization’s ability to manage growing volumes of information. It only takes a few minutes to answer these questions and receive your score. Try it now. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses

Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data. Posted: 08 Dec 2011 \| Published: 08 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Data Integration \| Data Mining \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Oracle (Product)

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DATA MINING DEFINITION (continued): … techniques and may lead to premature conclusions. Data dredging is sometimes described as "seeking more information from a data set than it actually contains." Data dredging sometimes results in relationships between variables announced as significant when, in fact, the data require more study before such an association can legitimately be determined. Many variables may be related through chance alone; others may be related through some unknown factor. To make a valid assessment of the relationship between any two variables, further study is required in which isolated variables are contrasted …
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