http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm bogdanc on SQL Server Data Mining Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:23:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Saturday, November 15th, the connection to the Table Analysis in the Cloud URL is broken. Until the problem is identified and fixed, here are some workarounds: - For the web interface, use the http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud URL - For the Excel add-in, please change the services connection URL. To ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/52 The "Data Mining with SQL Server 2008" book  now has a blog. You can check it out at http://www.SqlDataMiningBook.com Soon enough, there will be some content there: - various data mining related postings from Jamie and me -- all the product related postings on this blog will be replicated on the book's ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/51   The new version of the SQL Data Mining book is finally available, at least at Amazon. If you are currently SQL DM user, you have an opportunity to get a free autographed copy  by filling out a short survey about the way you use SQL ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/50 Technorati Tags: Cloud,Data Mining,SQL Server A new SQL Server Data Mining tool is available now for you to use directly from the browser -- the Prediction Calculator. The feature (already present in the 2008 version of the Data Mining Add-ins) is a scorecard generator. The tool learns from your data and produces ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/48 This week, at the KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) conference, we (as in Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining team) presented the Table Analysis Tools for the Cloud, a preview for a technology that enables anybody to play with some of the Microsoft's data mining tools, without any bulky downloads ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/47   Today I discovered a very nice Analysis Services client tool. Produced by SQLMinds, the tool seems a great addition to Analysis Services. It provides many components, among them a performance tuning service, an OLAP cube browser for the web and a very nice web front end for data mining, ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/45 Some very interesting, although time-consuming project kept me away from posting in the last month. Mea maxima culpa, I will try to catch up and put some new and interesting content here more often. Recently, trying to make sense of some prediction results, I realized that the DMX NATURAL ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/38 MyVBProf.com hosts a set of great video tutorials for performing business intelligence tasks with Excel 2007. Bill Burrows starts with the installation of pre-requisites. He even shows how to make sure that Excel .Net Programmability Support is available! Wow!! Bill then follows up with a set of tutorials on pivot tables ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/37 A recent post on the MSDN Forums raises the issue of reconstructing the Microsoft Neural Network and reproducing the prediction behavior based on the model content. The forum did not allow a very detailed reply and, as I believe this is an interesting topic, I will give it another try ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/36 This an actual question I had to answer in one of the previous Tech Ready conferences: when does one know that feeding more data to the mining model will stop improving accuracy? Or: how much training data is enough? With the new accuracy procedures in SQL Server 2008, I think ... http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/28