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Best Practices in Data Mining

Presented: Thursday, October 12th

Speaker: Peter Shaw, Senior Consultant, Insightful Corporation

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How do you extract, recognize and act on the valuable knowledge that is buried in your vast amount of data?

Your company or group has been amassing a large quantity of specialized data that captures day to day events.  Unlocking the valuable information contained in this data can give your group an advantage in making business decisions going forward.

How can your group best extract this knowledge in this data, learn from it, and use this knowledge to guide your actions and key business decisions going forward?

In Part 1 of this two-part Web cast, we describe the types of situations where data mining is useful, and the value it can add to business decisions.  We will cover the key steps of successfully incorporating data mining into your practice, the types of tasks that can be accomplished with data mining techniques, and best practices in making the data mining activities a success.


Peter Shaw, Senior Consultant,
Insightful Corporation

 Peter Shaw holds Bachelors degrees in Physics, and in Earth & Planetary Sciences from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego).

Dr. Shaw was a member of the Scientific Staff at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and subsequently University of Washington, where he has published more than 20 papers on a wide range of data intensive and applied statistical methods.

He is currently a Senior Consultant at Insightful Corporation where he has helped a number of clients across several industries extract valuable knowledge from their data through data mining methods, and has contributed significantly to the Data Mining training course offered by Insightful.