Data Mining and R

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This post lists a few data mining resources in R. I also provide a few observations on the distinction between data mining, data analysis, and statistics as it pertains to the analysis work that I do in psychology.

Online Resources
Some Casual Observations
  • Data mining seems more concerned with prediction using observed variables than with understanding the causal system of latent variables; psychology is typically more concerned with the causal system of latent variables.
  • Data mining typically involves massive datasets (e.g. 10,000 + rows) collected for a purpose other than the purpose of the data mining. Psychological datasets are typically small (e.g., less than 1,000 or 100 rows) and collected explicitly to explore a research question.
  • Psychological analysis typically involves testing specific models. Automated model development approaches tend not to be theoretically interesting.

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