Data Mining for Business Analytics

Catalog description

Data mining is both finding the right data in one's file systems or data warehouses, by applying smarter search and filtering criteria, as much as it is the reduction, analysis and presentation of that data in meaningful ways. While many of these techniques are statistical in nature, many rely on applied artificial intelligence algorithms - so-called "machine learning" - to help the organization's managers, accountants and doctors in "discovering" new knowledge in the sea of data that they already have, but cannot digest without significant software help.This course surveys methodologies useful for data mining for business analytics and guides the student in identifying the data mining process from the data exploration phase to the different predictive techniques.