Data Mining Group

The Data Mining Group, based on recent experiences, this is a very good idea:

' ... The Data Mining Group (DMG) is an independent, vendor led consortium that develops data mining standards, such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML).

PMML is the leading standard for statistical and data mining models and supported by over 20 vendors and organizations. With PMML, it is straightforward to develop a model on one system using one application and deploy the model on another system using another application ... '

A presentation on the subject. And an analyticsbridge discussion group on the subject.