A COMPILATION OF DATA MINING APPLICATIONS:
This webpage collects a group of data mining news which attracted my attention. The news are grouped in an intuitive way. I use these links for teaching issues.
Although the used methodology is mentioned, they are written in a divulgative style, where emphasis is put on the problem solved.

• Data mining general issues:
   
  • What is "data science"? Overview and general applications:
    • "AI, AI, AI! Inteligencia Artificial - cómo nos está afectando el uso de algoritmos de IA" (spanish TV report, "Somos Documentales - rtve play")
    • "Big Data, conviviendo con el algoritmo" (spanish TV report, "Documentos TV")
    • "Inteligencia Artificial, ¿nuestra mejor amiga?" (spanish TV report, "La noche temática)
      
    • "Lo datos: un reto, una profesión, una solución" [ElPais-Retina]
      
    • "Por qué un Ministerio de Inteligencia Artificial no es una idea descabellada" [TheConversation.com]
      
    • "La explicación más simple de Machine Learning que jamás habrás leido" (by a Google data sciencist)
      
    • "La era del algoritmo ha llegado y tus datos son un tesoro" (in spanish, El Pais journal)
      
    • "No hace falta ser matemático para ser experto en big data" (spanish journal El Pais): the increasing protagonism of big data and data mining applications in our world and its employment opportunities
    • A divulgative description of the kaggle.com platform in "Wired Journal"
      
    • "Tus datos íntimos son una mina". A divulgative article about the data mining discipline and several applications (published in the spanish newspaper, El Pais)
    • "La joven informática que quiere revolucionar el sistema de transplantes español" (published in the spanish newspaper, ElPais)
      
    • "La silenciosa revolución del machine learning". A divulgative article about the machine learning discipline and several applications (published in the spanish newspaper, La Vanguardia)
    • Most viewed YouTube videos for Data Mining [link]
      
    • Best blogs for data miners & sciencists [link]
      
    • "Nos vigilan", written in spanish, an extract of the "The Numerati" book (S. Baker). The use of the data mining discipline to store and analyze personal data
    • "30 can't miss Harvard Business review articles on data science, big data and analytics" [link]
      
    • "So, you want to be a data scienciest?": several interesting short ideas about the current needs of data analysts
    • "The social data revolution": a good short-article which reviews the historic development of data-gathering and data-modeling activities by companies which want to stay relevant for customers
    • Science journal 2015. "Machine learning: trends, perspectives, and prospects". MI Jordan and T Mitchell.
      
    • Tom M. Mitchell: "The discipline of machine learning". An interesting personal view about the topic. I specially like subsection 2.1, where a subset of successful machine learning applications are exposed
    • Pedro Domingos: "A few useful things to know about machine learning". The article summarized twelve key lessons (pitfalls, answers...) that machine learning researchers and practitioners have learned, and they do not tend to appear in common textbooks
    • 10 key algorithms in data mining (paper download)
    • "La máquina que aprende como un ser humano": machine learning from a reduced set of samples, as humans do
       
  • Big data, data analysis issues around the "Big Data" concept:
  • "¿Qué es eso del Big Data?" [in spanish, ElPais journal]
  • "Se buscan funcionarios que sepan de Big Data" [in spanish, ElPais journal]
    
  • "Sobrepasados por el Big Data" [in spanish, ElPais journal]
    
  • "Cómo big data decide por nosotros" [in spanish, La Vanguardia journal]
  • "Our World in Data": giving a global overview of world changing along the years in many areas (population, energy, economy, education...). A public good project of the University of Oxford
  • "¿Cuál es la función del data sciencist?" [LibertadDigital]
    
  • "El Big Data que enfrenta cuestiones sociales: ¿solución o problema?" [in spanish, El Mundo]
    
  • "El big data no es tan listo como se cree": from big data to smart data (before starting collecting data, think in the questions you want to ask to the data) [in spanish, ElPais journal]
    
  • A divulgative article about the data mining discipline in the NYTimes: "Big data's impact in the world". The spanish version of the article can be found here
  • Global Pulse: the United Nations initiative to digital data offers the opportunity to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being, and to get real-time feedback on how well policy responses are working. Its objective is to mainstream the use of data mining and real-time data analytics into development organizations and communities of practice.
  • "Como usar los datos para que nadie se cree atrás": an article written in spanish in El Pais journal about the UN Global Pulse initiative
  • List of projects and tools of UN Global Pulse: [link1] [link2]
  • "Aura: la plataforma de Telefonica para que los usuarios gestionen su vida-patrón digital" [ABC, in spanish]
    
  • "Data, data everywhere" [The Economist]
  • 6 successful applications of big data (in spanish) [link]
  • An interview to the Head of data of "HundredRooms" company about the rol of big data analysis in companies (in spanish) [link]
    
  • "The awesome ways big data is used today to change our world": 10 interesting applications of data mining and bigData
    
  • "Big data stories" [Bernard Marr's Linkedin blog]
    
  • "¿Qué hacen con nuestros datos en Internet?" (El Pais spanish journal): popular personal data flows in Internet
    
  • "Big data a la velocidad de la luz" (El Pais spanish journal): reflections about the hardware needs of a big data infraestructure and the rol of the private companies and Governments
    
  • United Nations report: "Big data for development: challenges & oppportunities"
  • "10 maneras de mejorar nuestra calidad de vida usando big data": written in spanish for ElPais journal
  • "Big data, big impact", a report of the World Economic Forum about the possibilities of data mining technologies in the current world economics
  • Top 10 Big Data companies by revenue
    
  • "El maná de los datos", a divulgative article about the current role of big data: written in spanish for ElPais journal
  • "The age of big data". The BBC documentary follows people who mine Big Data, including LAPD police officers who use data to predict crime, a London scientist/trader who makes millions with math, and a South African astronomer who wants to catalog the entire cosmos
  • "Premize caza datos, los cocina y los sirve calientes": written in spanish for ElPais journal
  • "Big data: el tesoro oculto del siglo XXI": written in spanish for Noticias Editorial Group
  • "Big data no sirve para atrapar criminales", an extract of the interview with Klint Finley about different uses of big data; written in spanish for ElPais journal
  • Google FluTrend's failure shows the weak points of the "big data" discipline [in spanish]
  • Big data challenges in CERN ("European Council for Nuclear Research"): written in spanish for ElPais journal
  • Analytic App Marketplaces: the next thing for big data [link]
  • "El Gran Hermano de los datos": written in spanish in DiarioVasco journal
  • Personal data on social networks to predict personal and professional characteristics: use or abuse? Written in spanish for ElPais journal
  • "How M2M (Machine to Machine) data will dominate the big data era": the role of sensors to capture data for further analysis
  • "Ten examples of extracting value from social media using big data"
  
  
  
  • Open data:
  • "Todos los accidentes de tráfico de Barcelona, calle a calle" [La Vanguardia: using Barcelona's municipal open data and "Carto" tool]
    
  • Donostia Data: online data offered by the city council of Donostia - San Sebastian
  
  
  
  • Ethics and Laws in artificial intelligence -- challenges in AI:
    • " La curva de aprendizaje de la inteligencia artificial está en riesgo: su ansia de datos es infinita pero no las obras humanas" [El Diario]
      
    • "La UE aprueba la primera ley de inteligencia artificial del mundo" [El Pais]
      
    • "Europa inaugura su herramienta para abrir las cajas negras de los algoritmos en Internet" [El Pais]
      
    • "La política parlamentaria comienza a tomar en serio las violencias de la inteligencia artificial y el big data " [El Salto Diario]
      
    • "An editorial of El Pais newspaper about the new ethical issues posed by Artificial Intelligence" [El Pais]
      
    • "Los algoritmos que rigen las relaciones laborales: así son y así se regulan" [Cinco Días]
      
    • "Inteligencia Artificial al servicio de tus jefes - La Ley Rider" [El Salto Diario]
      
    • "¿Vigilar el virus o a la población? El descontrol del Gobierno con tus datos" [El Confidencial]
      
    • "Mis datos, mi dinero: California quiere cobrar a las empresas que los usan" [ElPais-Retina]
      
    • "La próxima revolución política será por el control de los algoritmos" [eldiario.es]
    • "Un código ético para los científicos de datos" [La Vanguardia]
      
    • Dystopia, "Intimidad: y el algoritmo gobernará nuestras vidas" [eldiario.es]
      
    • "Big brother, big data". A criticism on the power of big data analysis in our everyday lifes [written in spanish by XLSemanal]
      
    • Data mining reveals a global link between corruption and wealth [new on MIT Technology Review]
      
    • Workday company: using machine learning to predict which employees are likely to leave a company and other types of predictions about a company and its employees.
      
    • US NSA making profiles of US citizens by crossing their personal data [written in spanish by Elpais journal]
    • Controversy in the US Senate about the privacy in Government's data mining projects [article in the Washington Post journal]
    • New US Federal Laws to protect user's privacy and the use of their personal data to be mined [article in the Los Angeles Times]
    • Big data mining, fairness and privacy: when using data mining, how to protect people from privacy intrusion and unfair discrimination
    • Data mining for terrorism clues: an article in USA-Today journal
    • Fighting crime with data: the use of data mining technique to crime prediction by police offices
    • Courthouse news -- McDonald's, CBS, & Microsoft Mine Data from Web Ads, mining consumers' web browser histories for entries of particular relevance to defendants' respective, customized advertising campaigns
    • An "orwellian"-style tale on data mining, the injustice of the richness distribution and the expulsion from the Heaven" (written in spanish)
    • "In Praise of the Innaccuracy" -- "Elogio de la inexactitud": a reflection about the limits of the data analysis discipline (published in the the spanish newspaper, El Diario Vasco)
       
  • Data mining as an industrial or academic oportunity:
    • "Big Data: claves de la competitividad en la empresa" [El Confidencial]
      
    • "Monetización de los datos: la importancia de los datos para las empresas" [La Vanguardia]
      
    • "Data analysis for everyone". BBVA bank's application for analyzing your shop's data (in spanish) [link]
      
    • Google says "is re-thinking everything around machine learning" [link]
      
    • Data Mining (and Statistical Analysis) is LinkedIn hottest skill in 2014
      
    • Yahoo! Key scientific challenges: among them, disciplines like "machine learning", "statistics", "algorithmic economics", "web mining" and "green computing".
    • 5 start-up companies in Silicon Valley that make use of data mining technologies
    • InfoJobs: "Ranking de trabajos emergentes más demandados, 2014" [link]
      
    • The raise of the "data sciencist" employment: "...by 2018 the U.S. could face a shortage of up to 190,000 workers with analytical skills. Data engineers are already harder to find than search engineers, and that's a sign of the times..." says Deep Nishar, head of product at LinkedIn"
    • 10 technologies to bet on in the recession
    • An article which relates the chess game, artificial intelligence and the oportunities to overcome the current financial crisis (written in spanish, El Pais journal)
    • Data mining among the "hot careers" for college graduates
       
  • New trends in data types/quality:
    
    • Quality of the data: the future for the success of data mining
    • New challenging data collections to be mined: "big data is watching you"
    • Kdnuggets.com polls about data mining usage: data types analyzed, data mining methods/algorithms used, data mining tools used, largest database mined, application types, tools for data manipulation, using Google to store data? ...
       
  • Datasets, data repositories:
    • UCI machine learning repository
    • Kaggle competitions over provided data and classification challenge:
      • Kaggle nominated by the World Economic Forum as one of the 2014-year economic pioneers
       

• Various data mining - big data applications (grouped, intuitively, by application areas):
   
  • Biomedicine - Bioinformatics:
  • "Un sistema de inteligencia artificial identifica las mutaciones causantes de cada tipo de cáncer" [link]
    
  • "La matemática que trata de acabar con el caos de datos de la COVID en España y salvar vidas" [link]
    
  • "Inteligencia Artificial contra COVID19 -- imágenes radiológicas" [podcast-link RTVE Radio5, "Palabra de ingeniero"]
    
  • "Big data, una nueva era en la medicina" (a divulgative article in the spanish journal El Pais) about the use of data analysis for human health
  • Big data is a big del toward a breast cancer cure [link]
    
  • How big data can help in home health care? [link]
    
  • "El diagnóstico médico está en la red". Medical diagnosis helped by the use of data mining (a divulgative article in the spanish journal El Pais)
  • High performance computing to discover cancer related mutations (a divulgative article in the spanish journal El Pais)
    
  • Applying machine learning technique over genomic data ("Ion Torrent" device's output) to understand the DNA and diagnose several diseases (a divulgative article in the spanish journal El Pais)
  • Bioinformatics topics: Decode - prediction of the probability to suffer several diseases, personalized DNA screening (polymorphisms) (both in spanish)
  • 10 years of the Human Genome Project: controversy in the patent of genes (a divulgative article in spanish journal El Pais)
  • The use of Bayesian networks for the genetic improvement of vegetals (in spanish)
  • D. Kraft: a video on "Medicine's future: the role of ITs on medicine's future"
     
  • Industry 4.0:
    
  • "El médico de las máquinas"[ElPais, link]
    
  
  
  
  • Sports:
  • "Modelo de predicciones de El Pais: ¿Quién ganará el Mundial de futbol 2022" [El Pais newspaper]
    
  • "De la partícula de dios al balón" [El Pais newspaper]
    
  • "La inteligencia artificial arruina un partido de futbol al confundir la calva del árbitro con la pelota" [La Vanguardia]
    
  • "Así funciona el Big Data detrás del futbol: tres personas por partido registran cada jugada" [eldiario.es, in spanish]
  • "Sergio Olmos, , el pívot matemático del Granada que enseña estadística avanzada" [El Confidencia, in spanish]
    
  • "La FIFA quiere que un algoritmo fije el precio de los futbolistas" [El Pais newspaper]
    
  • "Baloncesto: prediciendo la posición de un jugador en base a sus estadísticas" [solobasket.com, in spanish]
    
  • "Varias aplicaciones de análisis de datos en el mundo del deporte" [in spanish, infotechnology.com]
    
  • "Ducati incorpora machine learning al mundial de motoGP" [link, in spanish]
    
  • The possibilities of "Strava.com", the social network for athletes, for doing Big Data [link, in spanish]
    
  • "La revolución de las matemáticas llega al futbol": about the use of data analytics in football [link, in spanish, El Pais journal]
    
  • "El big data llega al tenis": how many sources of data are creating around a tenis game
    
  • Bing predicts: a tool for predicting sports' events results, and more [link]
  • "Tour de France", cycling data: [link1] [link2]
    
  • Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
  • Using basketball's spatial data to analyze each player's shot-frequency, shot-efficacy, effective-defense, etc. areas [link]
    
  • SportVU:  a company solution for player tracking by cameras
  • CourtVision: examining the NBA Through Spatial and Visual Analytics
  • SoccerWinner: automatic predictions for all matches in the top European Leagues
  • Sport by numbers: predicting winners and losers. Mining sport-competition data to determine whether the amount of money that sport teams pay for their players can predict how well the team will perform.
  • Sport injuries' prediction by means of neural networks. AC Milan-Lab
  • How IBM's computers are blocking injuries on the rugby pitch for Leicester Tigers team
  • Classification challenge-contest: predicting in advance the winner of the football Euro-2012, using predictive data of the qualifying stage and previous Euro-championships.
  • Soccer teams' strategies by means of networks: application to Euro-2008 and Wold-Championship'2012.
  • Predicting the London Olympics medal count.
  • Springer book: "Sports Data Mining". A book with a set of applications in the sports domain.
    
  
  
  • Recommender Systems:
  • "¿Cómo hacen Spotify y Netflix para saber qué cosas recomendarte, y por qué casi siempre aciertan?" [in spanish, a divulgative intro to RecSys]
    
  • "Así funciona el sistema de recomendaciones de Netflix" [in spanis, computerhoy.com]
    
  • Music recommender systems:
    • last.fm in Wikipedia: a pioneering on-line music recommender system
    • Sun music recommender system
    • Another music recommender system: the "musical brain project"
  • Film recommender systems:
    • NeoMetrics: analysis of social networks, "film recommender" (in spanish)
    • The NetflixPrize: a prize for improments on the film recommender system topic
    • KDD-Cup 2011, from Yahoo! Music collected data: predicting scores that users gave to various items (first track), separation of loved songs from other songs (second track)
  • How big data is used in recommendation systems [link]
    
  • Tipflare: a one-stop shop for recommendations on anything [new] [Tipflare website]
  • Goodreads will recommend your next book: "Amazon buys Goodreads" (in spanish)
  • Five most important projects on Recommender Systems during year 2008: music, video, pharmaceutical drugs...
  • Various recommender systems: StumbleUpon, PhotoTree, Jester - Online joke recommender
  • Million Song Dataset: predict which song a user will listen to [in kaggle.com]. Based on real data constributed by different on-line, recommender-based, music companies.
  • Matchmaking, how to model and predict human atraction? [link]
    
   
  • Politics:
  • "El BigData marcará las elecciones USA": the role of classification models to predict first whether a person will vote, and second, his/her explicit vote. Aggregated results in each polling stations are used trying to predict the vote of each person [link] [El Confidencial]
    
  • US Elections: using data mining to identify new and likely wealthy donors
  • Data mining and politics: Democrat party is using data mining: "How Obama's data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected"
  • The cost of acquiring data for election [link]
    
  • "Son las matemáticas, estúpido": a divulgative article, written in spanish (El Pais newspaper), about the role of data analysis and other modern capacities in our socities, with a nice example about the US Election predictions.
     
  • Computer Security, crime:
  • "Así trabaja el equipo de Interior que predice el perfil de los asesinos" (ElPais newspaper)
    
  • "Así sabe la policía si tu denuncia es falsa (y acierta un 91% de veces)" (El Pais newspaper)
  • "La herramienta que permite saber cuándo y dónde se va a producir un delito" (El Pais newspaper)
    
  • Mining military data to predict violent offenders [link]
    
  • Security and machine learning: malware detection
     
  • Music, poker, games, arts:
  • "Así es 'Ai-lalelo', la canción generada por inteligencia artificial que representa a Galicia en el Eurovisión de este campo" [link]
  • "Algoritmos como consejeros del amor" [link]
  • "Big data bets on the online casino industry" [link]
    
  • "El big data entra al museo": on the application of data analysis techniques over museums' visitors [link]
    
  • Applying data mining to movie analytics [link]
  • Data mining gamers: Predictive analytics allows to analyze and build a profile for each gamer allowing for highly targeted marketing and personalized in-game advertising [link]
  • Poker games' mining (in spanish)
  • "Fish or shark - data mining online poker" [link]
    
  • Microgaming network, a well-known poker-software, ends the use of data mining in its poker-hands database
  • Games and machine learning: the role and benefits of datamining in the design of games
  • Classifying music: sucess of a song, personal recommendations... [link]
    
  • Success of a song: predicting it by Polypho (in spanish)
  • Million Song Dataset: predict which song a user will listen to [in kaggle.com]. Based on real data constributed by different on-line, recommender-based, music companies.
     
  • Movility - Traffic and airports - hotels and logistics - tourism:
  • "El INE comienza hoy a rastrear millones de móviles para conocer la movilidad de los españoles" (RTVE)
  • "La Autoridad Fiscal evaluará el AVE con datos de móviles cedidos por Fomento" (ElPais)
    
  • "Ministerio de Fomento aplicará técnicas de Big Data a sus estudios sobre movilidad" 
    
  • "Big data para saber cómo se desplazan los aragoneses" (in spanish): an interesting big data application, related to people movements in Aragon spanish region, based on cell towers' data
  • "El año del big data en los restaurantes" (in spanish)
    
  • "Cómo tener un coche conectado puede afectar al precio de tu seguro" (in spanish, ABC newspaper)
    
  • HostelTur: "Machine Learning: Discurso de muchos, realidad de pocos"
    
  • GoogleResearch: "Using machine learning to predict parking difficulty"
  • "Cómo utilizar el big data de los móviles para resolver los atascos en Madrid" (in spanish): the LUCA project to study the traffic movements in a metropolis by means of mobile phones' antennas patterns
  • "El big data del turismo: Gobierno y operadoras recabarán datos de los turistas a través del roaming" (in spanish): using mobile phones' roaming system to detect the origin of incoming tourists in a country
    
  • Windows Azure Machine Learning application: fligth delay prediction
    
  • Nunav, formerly known as Greenway: an app to avoid traffic jams [in english] [in spanish]
  • Visualization of airline and airport traffic delays
  • Cheap flights mining - Cheap hotel mining (Farecast company was bought by Microsoft and integrated in Bing and the offered service disappeared)
  • Starwood: machine learning to dynamically price hotel rooms [link]
    
  • kayak.com fligt price forecast-prediction [link]
  • Mitsubishi cars will know when you are distracted [link]
    
  • Designing a classifier that will detect whether the driver is alert or not alert, employing data that are acquired while driving
  • Traffics jams: a Microsoft tool to avoid them
  • A competition on the traffic congestion issue: traffic congestion, jams and traffic reconstruction by GPS
     
  • Ecology - Sustainability -- Weather:
  • A kaggle.com competition on individual whale identification [link]
    
  • A nice list of data mining applications in agriculture [Wikipedia]
  • "Joselito inventa el big data de los cerdos" [VozPopuli]
    
  • Forecasting severe weather through data mining (University Massachusetts) [link]
  • Forecasting Alaska's long-term Ecosystem [link]
  • Institute for Computational Sustainability: current computational challenges in ecosystem issues
  • The Climate Corporation: A company which learns and sells weather predictions realted to farming insurance, making use of the vast amount of free data published by the National Weather Service on heat and precipitation patterns around the country
    
     
  • Stock market - Stock exchange - Other markets:
  • Kaggle's Winton stock market challenge: prediction the future stock returns, using a 5-days window of time [link]
    
  • Big data analytics to avoid another property bubble (in spanish - ElPais journal) [link]
    
  • Statistical models can predict a "Kickstarter's" sucess within 4 hours [link]
  • Artificial Intelligence to decide in the Stock Exchange (in spanish). A Job offer in a financial company
  • The role of automatic programs (robots) in the Stock Exhange (in spanish)
  • "Data mining isn't a good bet for stock-market predictions" (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Computers that trade on the news -- monitoring news, articles and social networks to predict the behaviour of the markets
  • Get in or out of the stock market? A company offers a product which tries to reply to this question.
  • IBM is buying companies that analyze, by means of data mining techniques, financial and insurance risks

   

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP):
    
  • Text analysis: document classification, a clear and simple explanation [link]
  • "Machine learning finds "fake news" with 88% accuracy" [kdnuggets.com link]
    
  • Getting machines closer to reading like humans do -- Maluuba company [link]
    
  • Text mining in R: frequency term [link]
  • Text analysis, text mining and information retrieval software [link]
    
  • Different word vector representations: "the amazing power of word vectors" [link]
    
  • A short abstract on sentiment analysis and its applications [link]
  • APIs for "sentiment analysis" and other NLP classification problems [link]
  • 11 things to know about sentiment analysis [link]
  • A summary of different NLP tasks [link]

   

  • Direct Advertising - Customer profiling - Analysis of shopping patterns:
  • Mining hotel industry data: customer segmentation [link]
  • Yelp: classifying business photos [link]
  • The current design of grocery layount [video]
    
  • "Business not using machine learning to augment the products and services will find it difficult to compete in the future" [link]
  • The new Era of marketing: Data mining pushes marketing to a new level
  • Workshop: "The use of Machine Learning in Online Advertising"
  • "Information to better compete": this article appeared in the spanish El Pais journal, and it explains the experience of the CognoData Consulting company to segment their clients (in spanish) 
     
  • Genetic algorithms - Optimization:
  • DarwinTunes: evolving music by consumer choices (a divulgative article explaining the application, in spanish)
  • Genetic algorithms to "eat waves": marine energy (in spanish)
  • Genetic algorithms for car design
  • Genetic algorithms for antenna design in the NASA
  • Genetic algorithms for the on-line optimization of a 2D-car in a particular terrain: nice GUI and show
  • Theo Jansen, a kinetic sculptor who uses genetic algorithms for the design-optimization of the shape of the machine's parts and gait
     

   

• Data mining frontiers:    
  
  
  • 10-top cutting-edge AI-ML projects by September'2020 [kdnuggets.com]
    
  • Social climate analysis in the web. Companies (Nielsen, Serendio, Asomo, Jodange, etc.: find here a list of companies devoted to this topic) track the web to measure users' opinion about brands, etc (sentiment analysis based on user's posts and texts). All of them offer services to well-known-brand companies in order to monitor how the Internet user's rate and assess their products (Sentiment Analysis). Mining cellphone and social networking data:
    • Google-Perspective: "Google crea Prespective para luchar contra los trolls en noticias" [El Pais, spanish]
      
    • Sentbuck: an application to monitorize the emotional state of a person [El Pais, spanish]
    • A divulgative article about "sentiment analysis on the web" (published by the NY Times)
    • A divulgative article about "automatic sentiment classification and blog analysis" (published in the spanish El Pais newspaper)
    • Detecting irony in social network comments [in spanish]
    • A Carnegie Mellon University study on Twitter Sentiments (relating it with the results on opinion polls)
    • An urban legend? Can be done data mining over FaceBook: (a negative perspective)? Here a positive perspective of this approach: predicting the humour of the users by FaceBook (in spanish)
    • What can be "mined-analyzed" in social networks? Five ideas to make money "mining" social networks [article]
    • Google punishes the companies which are not careful with their clients [article; published in the spanish Expansion journal)
    • Insurance companies: detecting fraud by social network analysis [description]
    • The social web: challenges for mining social networks
    • "Espíame, y dime cómo soy"; an article, written in the "El Pais" spanish newspaper, about the potential of current form of "big data" to be mined
    • "Mining our reality"; a visionary article in Science journal by Tom Mitchell, about the new trends in mining cellphone, human behaviour and social networking data.
    • MIT and Nokia project: "Reality mining"
    • A description of the "Reality mining" project's web
    • Related with the "Reality mining" project: "A phone that knows (predicts) where you're going"
    • "Cellphone records reveal patterns of human activity"
       
  • Learning from crowds:
    • GoogleResearch: "Using machine learning to predict parking difficulty"
      
    • nature.com: "Crowdsourced research: many hands make tight work"
      
    • Amazon Mechanical Turk, the marketplace for crowd annotators' work
    • Rechapta: a key example of crowd learning [published in spanish El Pais newspaper [link]
       
  • Prediction of the future:
    • Google: a tool for analyzing your historic data and predicting future outcomes
    • Google "Prediction API": an API for sentiment analysis, recommender systems, spam detection, etc.
    • Microsoft: Predestination, a Microsoft tool for predicting the future
   

   

Updated on April the 10th, 2024, by Iñaki Inza
Intelligent Systems Group
University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain