I recently attended this, 2 day workshop, July 30 and 31, 2010 Organized by Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Reva Institute of Technology & Management , Bangalore . Chief Guest: Dr. M K Banga, Senior Manager, Wipro. Guest of Honour: Basawraj Patil, IBM Project Manager. Prof & Head – VijayKumar, Reva Institute. Principal – Reva : Rana Pratap Reddy. All awesome sessions: Day - 1 Few Highlights: Data + Mine = DataMining Film = “Beautiful Minds” Current Problems Data mining on Images / Audio / Video. Patterns, Similarity and Regularity. Mathematical Models, Statistics, Probability, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks Developing Mathematical models for Leaf pattern / Sun Flower Collaborative Filtering Stanford University offers – Dataset + Infrastructure 90% data on Internet is junk So, first Clean the data, Pre-processing steps [Data Cleansing and Transportation] Data Types: Enterprise Data / RDBMS / Web Data Book Reference: - “Pattern Classification”