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September 2004

 

Welcome to the inaugural issue of 'The Data Miner' - the official newsletter of SQL Server Data Mining. This periodic newsletter keeps you up-to-date with the latest happenings in the SQL Server Data Mining world and gives you useful tips to help you get the most from SQL Server Data Mining.

SQL Server 2005 Data Mining at KDD-2004

SQL Server 2005 Data Mining made a big splash at KDD-2004, the premier data mining conference organized by the ACM's SIG KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). KDD was held Aug 22-25 in Seattle this year.

 

Jamie MacLennan, development lead for SQL Server Data Mining, gave a well-received invited talk on Data Mining standards on the first day of the conference. Microsoft researcher David Heckerman's keynote on "Graphical Models for Data Mining" on the third day was an unqualified success, with many attendees rating it one of the best-ever  KDD keynote talks. Heckerman's MLAS (Machine Learning and Applied Statistics) team at Microsoft Research is one of the key collaborators of the SQL Server Data Mining product team, contributing the Time Series and Sequence Clustering algorithms as well as the dependency network and other viewers to SQL Server 2005.

 

We had the busiest booth by far in the exhibition area. The booth had six machines set up with tutorials and demo applications that visitors could use to explore SQL Server 2005 Data Mining.  Most of the research and industry experts who received demos of SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Data Mining capabilities offered glowing feedback about the product.

 

Team members demo SQL Server 2005 Data Mining to conference attendees

 

 

SPSS in Our Corner

SPSS, the world’s second largest data mining software vendor, was in the SQL Server 2005 Data Mining booth showing off their algorithms and viewers integrated into the Beta 2 edition of Analysis Server 2005 and Business Intelligence Development Studio respectively. This was a testament to the extensibility designed into the SQL Server Data Mining platform and it evoked a lot of excitement both from business customers and other vendors exhibiting at KDD.

MSDN Data Mining Article

This month’s issue of MSDN Magazine features an article that takes you on a whirlwind tour of SQL Server 2005 Data Mining. Check it out.

SQL Server Data Mining Resources

·         Data Mining Community Site

·         SQL Server 2005 Newsgroups

·         Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Web Site

·         SQL Server Developer’s Center

 

Talk to us

We appreciate your feedback on the product. Please post your questions and comments to our newsgroups:

·         SQL Server 2005 Beta:  microsoft.private.sqlserver2005.analysisservices.datamining

·         SQL Server 2000: microsoft.public.sqlserver.datamining

 

 

Thank you

The SQL Server Data Mining Team

 

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