TDWI The Data Warehousing Institute

Prerequisite: None

Two- or Three-Day Workshop

Course Outline

This intensive three-day hands-on methodical workshop event offers a comprehensive project-level orientation to predictive analytics solutions -- from project assessment and preparation to industry standard process, case demonstrations, pragmatic exercises, and model lifecycle management.

If you are looking for an intensive vendor-neutral and non-promotional introduction to data mining best practices and an approach to predictive analytics that is critical to modeling success, then this course is designed for you.  Those in attendance will actively step through the industry standard process for data mining and realize why an advanced degree in statistics, mathematics, or computer science not required to establish a productive internal predictive analytics practice.  Live working sessions reveal real-world obstacles and breakthroughs from which to interpret, learn, and apply.

You Will Learn

• Process, principles and terminology for predictive analytics
• Who is utilizing predictive analytics, and why
• Common project pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Project performance and maintenance issues
• How to define business objectives for a decision-support system
• Hands-on exposure to the natural messiness of data mining
• How to get started

Geared To

• IT/IS executives and managers: CIOs, CKOs, CTOs, functional officers, technical directors, and project managers; line of business executives and functional managers: risk managers, customer relationship managers, business forecasters, inventory flow analysts, financial forecasters, direct marketing analysts, medical diagnostic analysts, e-commerce company executives; technology planners who survey emerging technologies in order to prioritize corporate investment; consultants whose competitive environment is intensifying and whose success requires competency with data mining and related emerging information technologies