Successful technology becomes invisible.
KDD-98 Panel Discussion Report, Embedded data mining applications. Initially started as a half-day long display of research prototypes, the KDD exhibits quickly evolved into an industry event eagerly sought by the practitioners, researchers and the vendors in the field. In this article, I provide an overview of the KDD-98 exhibits program and the outline the factors that led to its success. The annual Symposium on the Interface between Computer Science and Statistics is the statistical conference likely to be of greatest interest to quantitative practitioners of KDD . Statistics and data mining have much in common, but they also have differences.