JSM Preliminary Online Program
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Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

CE_06C Sat, 8/2/08, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM CC-207
Successful Data Mining in Practice - Continuing Education - Course
ASA
Instructor(s): Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College
This course will introduce data mining, which is the exploration and analysis of large data sets by automatic or semiautomatic means with the purpose of discovering meaningful patterns. The knowledge learned from these patterns can be used for decisionmaking via "knowledge discovery." Much exploratory data analysis and inferential statistics concern the same type of problems, so what is different about data mining? What is similar? In the course, I will attempt to answer these questions by providing a broad survey of the problems that motivate data mining and the approaches used to solve them.
 

JSM 2008 For information, contact jsm@amstat.org or phone (888) 231-3473. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.
Revised September, 2008