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

[Dr. Jen Q. Louie]

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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 08:04:44 -0500
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From: "Goodin, Bill" <bgoodin@unex.ucla.edu> (by way of "Dr. Jen Q. 
Louie"
<jqlouie@nautilus-systems.com>)
Subject: DM: UCLA short course on "Data Mining Techniques and
  Applications"
Cc: jqlouie@nautilus-sys.com

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.