DM: UCLA short course on "Data Mining Techniques and Applications"

[Goodin, Bill]

> On February 2-5, 1998, UCLA Extension will present the short course,
> "Data Mining Techniques and Applications" on the UCLA campus in 
> Los Angeles.
> 
> The instructors are Wei-Min Shen, PhD, USC Information Sciences 
Institute; Rakesh Agrawal, PhD, IBM Almaden Research Center; and 
Jiawei Han, PhD, Simon Fraser University.

This course is intended for scientists, engineers, and information 
managers who need to learn and apply data mining techniques (tools 
for discovering valuable knowledge from very large data sets) to 
their 
scientific research, system design, business management, or any 
other related applications. The lecturers are among the world-leading 
experts in the field with extensive experience in basic research as 
well as in real industrial application.

This course should enable participants to understand and have 
hands-on 
experience in:
o       Basic concepts of data mining
o       The overall process of data mining
o       Critical steps in the data mining process
o       Relationships between data mining and other scientific
disciplines
o       Formalizing data mining problems
o       Data preprocessing
o       Data classification
o       Data clustering
o       Database structures and their operations
o       Time serial data analysis
o       Visualization
o       Prediction and forecasting

> The course fee is $1295, which includes extensive course materials. 
> 
> These materials are for participants only, and are not for sale.
> 
> For additional information and a complete course description, 
>please 
> contact Marcus Hennessy at:
> 
> (310) 825-1047
> (310) 206-2815  fax
> mhenness@unex.ucla.edu
> http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses
> 
> This course may also be presented on-site at company locations.