R help - Feb 2001 - Literature needed

Howdy!

Could somebody point me to some good introductory readings about data 
mining and descriptive data analysis? I'm a psychologist and a couple 
of times I realized that some things just don't appear in 
psychological literature, e.g. I've never seen a box plot anywhere in 
psych journals so I'm not familiar with them. The R help function is 
great when it comes to explaining how to use a feature and I wonder 
if that would also be a good place for literature recommendations?

A second thing I need to find some information about is if there is 
anything special to correlating measures of change. In my case I have 
measured marital satisfaction and quality of communication at two 
points in time and want to look at the correlations between 
(satisfation t2 - satisfaction t1) and (communication t2 - 
communication t1). I always thought there's nothing to it but some 
psychologist discuss a lot about correlations between changes and now 
I'm afraid I've been missing something important.

Sorry for this a bit lengthy and slightly off topic posting. Any help 
appreciated!

Ragnar Beer
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Hi Ragnar,

A good place to start is the Two Crows Corporation,
http://www.twocrows.com/.  There are many links and resources on Data Mining
that you may find useful (at least I did).  You can also request to receive
a free pdf copy of the their DM tutorial, Introduction to Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery (they'll send the copy to an e-mail address you
specified).  You may want to click on the hyperlink "About Data
Mining"
first.

However, if you need the information urgently, I've got a copy of it at
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/DataMining/, which I just posted
up for you.  There are also a few other articles that I've collected from
varies places in the last few months, which may or may not be useful for
you.  However I put them up for you to have a look.

Hope this helps,

----------------------------------------------
Ko-Kang Wang
Undergraduate Student (Final Year)
Statistics Department
Science Faculty
University of Auckland



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> Howdy!
>
> Could somebody point me to some good introductory readings about data
> mining and descriptive data analysis? I'm a psychologist and a couple
> of times I realized that some things just don't appear in
> psychological literature, e.g. I've never seen a box plot anywhere in
> psych journals so I'm not familiar with them. The R help function is
> great when it comes to explaining how to use a feature and I wonder
> if that would also be a good place for literature recommendations?
>
> Sorry for this a bit lengthy and slightly off topic posting. Any help
> appreciated!
>
> Ragnar Beer
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> > Could somebody point me to some good introductory readings about data
> > mining and descriptive data analysis? 
You may also want to check out my bookmarks on DM:

  http://bookmarks.kuonen.com/Statistics/Datamining/

or directly my list of interesting articles:

  http://bookmarks.kuonen.com/Statistics/Datamining/Articles/

Or the DM of Statoo.com:

  http://www.statoo.com/sections/Datamining/

Greets

  Diego

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