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Do they allow the caching of some sort of ID piece so you can retain a link to your own acquired data on the user? I would assume they do. Don’t really want to wade through the API docs for that one quick question.

Harry “sorry for being lazy” Wang

Google for the name “Ron Kohavi”, which it will take you right to his web site.
I tried to post the URL in my last message but it was blocked by the TechCrunch spamfilter.

C’mon, go on and read Ronny’s papers. I hope that Ronny’s papers will educate you on the subject of how Amazon is using data-mining to run their business successfully.

Now, here are some stuff (publications) from the former head of data-mining at Amazon, Dr. Ronny Kohavi (who now works for Microsoft). Here is Ronny’s site:

I have read all of Ronny’s papers which were published in various journals, such as Journal of Machine Learning, SIAM Journal of Data Mining
and ACM KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) Journal.

I invite you to go and read all of Ronny’s papers and slides from his past talks and presentation at conferences which are freely available from his site, then once you understand what Amazon’s data-mining recommendation engine is about, then you should shut up because you’re arguing for the sake of it.

Chris, have you considered a career as a stand-up comedian?

Did you go into WEKA (java open source data-mining project) web site?

I suggest you read it , learn about it before you spew out useless explanations about data mining here.

The word mining implies that you are digging and extracting data from a new source.

“Amazon recommendation is data-mining”

Here’s something you do not know. I interviewed with Amazon.com’s page landing optimization team in Seattle and I have knowledge of their structure that you may not.

Amazon uses SQL to optimize page landing. The data is already collected from purchases, so it IS NOT data mining.

“You suck the data (retrieve) out of MySpace, but you haven’t mined the knowledge out of it.”

My pseudo code above included a regular expression line that simulated the extraction of profile data from each fetched web page iteration and storing it in a database.

That implicitly counts as mining. Sorry. Mining is not the process of creating graphs and other metrics out of data. Mining is the process of extraction.

Yes Chris, and I had responded to your misunderstanding on data-mining subject from the other thread for :

MySpace Data Availability

Yes Chris, and I had responded to your misunderstanding on data-mining subject from the other thread for :

MySpace Data Availability

where you think that data-mining is something like the following (your own code):

n=2
while(1) (
wget_implementation(”http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=n”)
regex(all_friend_data_into_sql)
n++
)

So, what knowledge that you have discovered by using the piece of code above?