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Sunday, October 9, 2011

How Obama's data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected

An article on CNN about how the Obama 2012 campaign has hired many data miners and statisticians to help boost fundraising and support.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/09/tech/innovation/obama-data-crunching-election/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Text Analytics with RapidMiner Part 6 of 6 - Applying the Model to New Documents

After my last series, I got a lot of questions about how to apply a model to new data, so here is the real final installment in the series.

I show how to save a wordlist and model to the repository. I use them later to read the wordlist and model and apply them to new documents that RapidMiner hasn't seen before. It correctly labels 11 of the 12 documents.



Files from the video.