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

[Goodin, Bill]

> On January 25-28, 1999, 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 $1395, 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.