DATA MINING WORKSHOP

DATA MINING WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY: Reserve one of the 20 seats today	Testimonials: “I learned so much in that day and at other presentations you did. It would have taken me a very long time to figure it all out on my own digging through books in the library. It was definitely worth the money to attend your workshop.” (Brenda Bailey, Associate Director for Research, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities). “Your presentation on data mining and knowledge management at the AIR Forum in Toronto was one of the best I attended.” (Raquel Duszynski, Research Analyst, Moraine Valley Community College )
This well attended and successful hands-on data mining workshop has been brought back from Toronto, Canada to San Jose, California. Date: Friday, August 16^th, 2002 Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Room BBC305, Building 46, College of Business, San Jose State University (easy access to airport/freeway) Audience: Beginners/semi-intermediate users in government, private sector, and education	What is data mining? Which data mining model is the best for predicting a student’s chance of persistence, retention, success? Who are the ones that are transferring or dropping out? Where does data mining fit in the context of Knowledge Management? What is a backpropogating neural net, entropy, decision tree? How to transfer data mining techniques developed for the corporate world to higher education/government? View workshop syllabus
Registration: on-going ~~1/4 of the seats booked first day of registration (7/9)~~ ~~Over half of the seats have been booked (7/11)~~ 3 seats are left (7/22) Please contact Jing Luan (jing@cabrillo.edu) to register. The workshop fee is $190 including manual, data CD, premium parking and catered breakfast/lunch. Register early. Advanced payment $190. Onsite payment $250. All proceeds go to Cabrillo College, a non-profit education institution. Checks or purchase orders payable to Cabrillo College. Attn: Planning and Research Office, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA, 95003. For more information, please call 831.477.5656.	Plan to attend this workshop given by Jing Luan, Chief Planning and Research Officer at Cabrillo College. Suitable for Research and IT professionals with all levels of interest and skills, this workshop will start from the basics and move up through applying two most desirable and powerful algorithms-Clustering and Predicative Modeling. An informative manual, sample database CD, and tech support will be available upon attendance. Jing Luan is co-author with Andreea Serban, of "Knowledge Management-Building a Competitive Advantage in Higher Education" published by Jossey-Bass, Spring 2002 (NDIR series No.113) in which data mining is prominently featured.
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