1. VARS Data Mining An introduction to the snapshot tool

2. Overview What is the VARS Data Mining Project? What does this “snapshot tool” do? Who is it for?

3. Installation Requirements –Java 1.5 –512MB RAM (1GB ?) –Disk Space How to handle.tar.gz Where to install

4. DEMO!

5. Future Improvements Scheme to allow MBARI staff to access embargoed data ROV Navigation correlated to current search set Alternate search parameters? Scientist, annotator, season, etc… Interop with VARS, Interop with other VDM software. Search set download mechanism

6. Future of Mining VARS Possible collaboration with Microsoft Research. Begin work on machine learning oriented data mining. –Easy access to data within “R” Look for biases in our current annotation process.