John Elder will lead our next Office Hours call on Wednesday, September 1 from 2-3 pm EST. John will outline the value and methods involved in data mining across both quantitative and qualitative data. In particular, John will describe the data transformations necessary before doing such work, and the tools that are particularly valuable for mining mixed data types. Finally, he will share details of a particular project for a branch of the US government in which both types of data were successfully mined to benefit key constituents.
Dr. John Elder is an IIA faculty member and the founder and CEO of Elder Research, a data mining consulting team with offices in Charlottesville, VA and Washington, D.C. Founded in 1995, Elder Research focuses on investment, commercial, and security applications of pattern discovery and optimization, including stock selection, image recognition, text mining, process optimization, cross-selling, biometrics, drug efficacy, credit scoring, market timing, and fraud detection. He is the co-author of Handbook of Statistical Methods and Data Mining Applications (Academic Press, 2009), and of Ensemble Methods in Data Mining (Morgan and Claypool, 2010).
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