Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:57:23 +0530
From: Shalini Urs
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Dear LIS Professionals,
We have been talking about repositioning the LIS profession for a while
now. Here is an opportunity for the profession to retool itself with some
of the emerging tools and technologies that are redrawing the boundaries
of the field.
Data Mining is one such �area and we have Prof. Ian Witten who is familiar
to the LIS profession through his Greenstone Digital Library software to
give a tutorial on the topic “Data Mining with Weka” at the
ICADL 2013.
This is a great opportunity to learn to deploy �the Open Source Data
Mining Software Weka. �I am sure everyone will agree with me that it is a
rare opportunity to learn software directly from the developer of the
software and an author of the book on the subject. Prof. Witten is the
developer of the software Weka and also the author of the book “Data
Mining:
Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques,” the
third edition which was published in January 2011 by Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers.
You can also enroll for the upcoming MOOC called "Data Mining with Weka"
which is now open at � ����������� http://weka.waikato.ac.nz Where there's
link to a short video trailer (on YouTube).�The course will start on 9th
September and extends over 5 weeks. It features: �
� Video lectures
. Practical activities and online assessment
Extracts from Data Mining (3rd Edition): Witten, Frank & Hall (2011) The video lectures are
fully�captioned -- in English -- to make it easier for non-native English
speakers to understand. You can also follow the course via Twitter or the
blog: ����������� https://twitter.com/WekaMOOC �����������
http://wekamooc.blogspot.co.nz/ To learn more in person attend the
tutorial on " Data mining with Weka" at the ICADL 2013
(http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/tutorials.html)
Dr. Shalini R.Urs Chair, ICADL 2013 &
Executive Director and Professor
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570006
Phone : + 91 821 2514699
Fax : + 91 821 2519209
www.isim.ac.in
ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM
