The certificate program included courses like Business Analytics Foundations and Data Mining and Visualization.
It will use machine learning methods and big data analytics and data mining tools.
The Smart Data Collective, focused on cloud computing and data mining, is sponsored by Teradata.
Two years ago when the students were choosing majors, mobile device and data mining weren't the hot topics.
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Skill in mathematics, statistics, modeling and data mining are of course essential.
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Today, the most formidable tools to effectively manage unstructured data include natural language processing, ontologies and data mining, which together support the effective use of unstructured data.
Charles Duhigg at The New York Times reports on how both the Obama and Romney campaigns are turning to market research and data mining in an effort to boost voter turnout in their favor.
"The use of text-mining algorithms was critical in this endeavor and helped secure a complete picture that would not have been available using traditional market research, " says Michael Cavaretta, Ford's technical leader for predictive analytics and data mining.
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As a result, they can do what-if analysis, model data, and run sophisticated data mining and forecasting algorithms that return answers within minutes, enabling them to fine-tune and refine their offers and service bundles to accurately reflect the needs of their subscribers.
Louise Francis is the president of Francis Analytics and Actuarial Data Mining, and is vice president of research, as well as a fellow, of the Casualty Actuarial Society.
They simply put Hadoop and other data mining technologies in service to aggregate value from masses of information.
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Life insurance companies are going even further with their digital surveillance and data-mining, as pointed out recently by the Wall Street Journal.
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There is no tracking and no data mining.
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As business grows faster-paced and more complex, data-mining and analytics become increasingly valuable.
At the same time, also twenty years ago, enterprise IT saw a major wave of change with the rise of relational databases running on inexpensive servers, data mining, and data warehousing.
If you are not focused on optimal data mining and using all the latest data science tools, you are missing an important success factor.
Nazem recently opened labs in Pasadena and Sunnyvale, Calif. (concentrating in advanced data mining and search) and Berkeley (for social behavior).
As Ian Ayres (my colleague in forbes columny) writes in his insightful and delightful Super Crunchers (Bantam 2007), the technologies for assembling and mining huge data sets have converged over the last couple of decades, and they give us remarkable new power to pluck the future out of the past.
Recent advances in analytic technology and data visualization has neutralized the advantage held by statisticians, data mining experts and actuarials with advanced degrees in predictive analytics and operations research.
The service draws on machine learning, data mining and predictive modeling to make its suggestions.
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This is a situation that cannot be undone by fine tuned data mining and sifting.
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The role of regulations, specifically, can limit who can be in the business of user data collection and mining.
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In the advent of big data mining and the Internet of all things, we have the technology to absolutely tailor our campaigns.
Unlike with traditional TV campaigns, advertisers online can increasingly target commercials at precisely the right sort of people, using sophisticated data mining and tracking technology.
If you cannot explain why the inefficiency exists then you are likely just data mining and exposing your portfolio to unintended risks with uncertain outcomes.
Instead, Target has a central system where all data is analyzed and pushed back out to support day-to-day operations, mining purchasing data, tying it to specific individuals and using algorithms to predict future outcomes.
Ricks, 52, a former accounting and finance professor at Duke and Columbia, draws on a research group of 21 analysts and programmers to pick stocks after mining data on 6, 000 companies in the U.S. and twice that number overseas.
Social and society mining searches unstructured data like complaint letters, blog posts and tweets.
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Food Genius plans to set itself apart by using big data mining technologies and machine processing to spot trends faster than any of these companies currently can.
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The most successful of these new Big Data mining toolmakers and consultants will likely be those that first master and then advance the technology of data compression.
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