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UCLA short course on "Data Mining Techniques and Applications"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Goodin, Bill)
Mon Nov 2 23:12:24 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:54:48 -0500
From: "Goodin, Bill" <bgoodin@unex.ucla.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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> 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.
