JSM Activity #CE2003_31T

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CE2003_31T Wed, 8/6/03, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM N-Monterey Room II
Data Mining in Excel Using XL Miner - Continuing Ed
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Instructor(s): Nitin Patel, Cytel Software Corporation
This workshop will introduce an Excel-based tool that can be effectively used for data mining: "XLMiner," developed by Cytel Software Corp. and distributed by Resampling Stats, Inc. XLMiner is a fully integrated add-in to Microsoft Excel, released within the last year. Topics and methods available in this toll include classification (classification trees, discriminant analysis, logistic regression, neural networks, naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbors), prediction (multiple linear regression with subset selection, k-nearest neighbors, regression trees), affinity analysis (association rules), data reduction and exploration (principal components, k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering), and data preparation (partitioning into training, validation and test data sets, stratified sampling for rare outcomes, missing data imputation). The key steps in the data mining process will be laid out and implemented in XLMiner for several of the above methods. Basic knowledge of statistics and familiarity with Excel is required of participants. Teachers, especially those in business schools who are considering incorporating data mining into the curriculum, will be particularly interested in this workshop. Participants will receive a copy of Professor Patel's Data Mining in Excel: Methods and Cases. Fee: Everyone - $50.00
 

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