DM: Introductions

[Patrick A. Lynch]

Hi there folks,

My name is Patrick Lynch. I am a research assistant and lecturer at 
the 
University College, Cork, Ireland. Our research includes a project on 
the 
evolving architectures being used in data warehousing. Through my 
interest 
in data warehousing, I regard data mining as a fundamental aspect to 
the 
analytical side of an information architecture. I have been eaves 
dropping 
on this list for 6 or 8 months now.

I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with the work of Codd (of 
relational 
database theory fame), but he also offers a variety of analytical 
modes 
(well, 4 actually) associated closely to OLAP (on-line analytical 
processing). OLAP only meets some of the analytical needs (hense 
datamining 
technologies, for example).
As a matter of interest, does anyone have any other ideas on a 
framework or 
spectrum of analytical modes between a cursory look and the decision 
point, 
along with whatever technologies/solutions that would be associated 
with 
each? Apologies if this is off the agenda in these datamining 
discussions.

Cheers, and thanks again to Dorothy...
Patrick

Patrick A. Lynch
Executive Systems Research Centre
University College, Cork, Ireland.
Tel.: +353 21 903338
Fax.: +353 21 271566
http://www.ucc.ie/esrc
mailto:pal@esrc.ucc.ie