Tom Khabaza is director of Applied Analytics at SPSS Inc., the leading global provider of predictive analytics. Khabaza has worked in the field of data mining since 1991, as a data mining consultant and as a designer of data mining technology, providing services to many Fortune 500 companies and guiding the development of SPSS' data mining offerings. He can be reached at tomk@spss.com.

Hard Hats for Data Miners: Myths and Pitfalls of Data Mining
May 3, 2005 This article debunks several myths about data mining and presents a plan of action to avoid some of the pitfalls.