How do data webs support data mining?
A. A DSTP client can easily access other peoples data and metadata. Once data is retrieved from one or more sites, data mining algorithms and exploratory data analysis can be done as usual. DataSpace is designed to interoperate with proprietary and open source data mining tools. In particular the open source statistical package R has been integrated into Version 1.1 of DataSpace and is currently being integrated into Version 2.0. DataSpace also works with predictive models in PMML, the XML markup language for statistical and data mining models.
