Good ways to become a professional data miner?
gtani: I would learn thoroughly lib/frameworks like "R" (and ggplot2, very cool), weka and the python suite numpy / scipy, matplotlib-----------------------------look at all the books out now.  I think Witten/Franke (authors of weka) was the first one titled "Data Mining" but there's a slew of htem, read Amazon reviews---------------------hit the blogospherehttp://www.dataminingblog.com/2009/01/30/three-new-data-mini...http://www.decisionstats.com/