On Nov 6, 7:10 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 4:19 am, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "D.Hering" <vel.a..mail.com> wrote: > > > > [1] Anything/everything that is physical/virtual, or can be conceived > > > is hierarchical... if the system itself is not random/chaotic. Thats a > > > lovely revelation I've had... EVERYTHING is hierarchical. If it has > > > context it has hierarchy.
Jens, You might be interested in this book http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/index.html which is new, I just ordered my copy. From the contents shown online, it has lot of applicability to data mining, using Python, although it its primary topic is data mining the web, it also covers analyzing the data etc. Ron Stephens > > > Do I hear Echoes of What Was Said by a chappie > > who rejoiced in the name of Aristotle? > > The 20th century perspective found it more flexible to base > everything on set theory (or category theory or similar) > which is fundamentally relational. Historically > hierarchical/network databases preceded rdbms's because they > are fundamentally more efficient. Unfortunately, they are > also fundamentally more inflexible (it is generally agreed). > > -- Aaron Watters > ===http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=ascii+christmas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list