data mining http://www.itworld.com/data-mining xx Use data mining techniques to detect fraud http://www.itworld.com/security/83695/use-data-mining-techniques-detect-fraud The basic premise of Benford's Law is that certain leading digits in any random set of data will appear in a specific non-uniform manner or in a certain frequency -- anything that is outside that frequency indicates a non-compliant anomaly. There are some great tools out there that can let you apply Benford's Law to your data, including Microsoft Excel. http://www.itworld.com/security/83695/use-data-mining-techniques-detect-fraud#comments Security Tip Benford's Law data mining data visualization The Daily Tip Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:34:52 -0500 ITworld tips 83695 at http://www.itworld.com Need to crawl billions of Web pages? There's an app for that http://www.itworld.com/software/78436/need-crawl-billions-web-pages-theres-app 80legs Inc. has officially launched its service, which brings supercomputer-scale data mining of the Web to companies, and even individuals. http://www.itworld.com/software/78436/need-crawl-billions-web-pages-theres-app#comments Business intelligence Internet SaaS Software News cloud computing data mining web crawler Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:20:55 -0400 ITworld staff 78436 at http://www.itworld.com Want to make BI pervasive? It's the culture, stupid http://www.itworld.com/business-intelligence/77877/want-make-bi-pervasive-its-culture-stupid Business intelligence software may have been around for several decades, but it remains an esoteric niche in most companies, according to an analyst. http://www.itworld.com/business-intelligence/77877/want-make-bi-pervasive-its-culture-stupid#comments Business Business intelligence Networking Software News BI data mining Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:46:09 -0400 ITworld staff 77877 at http://www.itworld.com MySpace to open source in-house data analysis technology http://www.itworld.com/open-source/77811/myspace-open-source-house-data-analysis-technology MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/77811/myspace-open-source-house-data-analysis-technology#comments Internet Open Source Software News data mining MySpace Qizmt Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:44:57 -0400 ITworld staff 77811 at http://www.itworld.com White House set to unleash 100,000 federal data sources via data.gov http://www.itworld.com/government/68841/white-house-set-unleash-100000-federal-data-sources-datagov The U.S. plans to make more than 100,000 data sources available by the end of next week on its data.gov site, in what may be the real start of government's effort to share its vast database with the world. http://www.itworld.com/government/68841/white-house-set-unleash-100000-federal-data-sources-datagov#comments Government News data mining database Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:46:24 -0400 ITworld staff 68841 at http://www.itworld.com