Presenter:
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Dick De Veaux |
Abstract |
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This six hour seminar will be a practical introduction to and an overview of data mining. Data mining 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 theses patterns can then be used for decision making via a process known as "knowledge discovery". Much of exploratory data analysis and inferential statistics concern the same type of problems so what is different about data mining? What is similar? What's different? 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 that are used to solve them. I will illustrate the process of data mining on case studies from a variety of industrial and scientific problems and will provide practical advice on how to be successful in a data mining project.
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Biography |
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Dick De Veaux holds degrees in Civil Engineering (B.S.E. Princeton), Mathematics (A.B. Princeton), Physical Education (M.A. Stanford; Specialization in Dance) and Statistics (Ph.D., Stanford). He has taught at the Wharton School, the Princeton University School of Engineering, and, since 1994, has been a professor in the Math and Stat Department of Williams College. He has won numerous teaching awards including a "Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence in Teaching" from the Engineering Council at Princeton. He returned to Princeton in 2006 as the William R. Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching. He has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards (twice) from the American Society for Quality and is a fellow of the ASA. In 2008 he was named the Statistician of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the ASA.
Dick has been a consultant for over 25 years for such companies as American Express, Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, First USA bank, Dupont, Pillsbury, Rohm and Haas, Ernst and Young, General Electric, and Chemical Bank. He holds two U.S. patents and is the author of over 30 refereed journal articles and four books including "Intro Stats" with Paul Velleman and Dave Bock and "Business Statistics" with Norean Sharpe and Paul Velleman. Dick's hobbies include cycling, and singing. He is a frequent bass soloist with local choral groups and is the founder of the doo-wop quartet "The Diminished Faculty". He is also the father of four teenagers (!).
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2010 Dates |
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| April 5 - 16 |
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