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Permalink Reply by Tom Wolfer on September 12, 2010 at 3:54pm

I did a query in Google, and I found the following list of datamining researchers/schools in the US, and NYU - Stern School of Business is included in it:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/dmi/researchers/

Good luck man.

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Permalink Reply by Bashshar on September 12, 2010 at 9:20pm

OSU offers a Graduate Certificate in Data Mining, I think it is one of the best in USA especially if you want to learn SAS. All classes are offered online and you'll have access to a SAS virtual server for assignment and projects.
Bashshar 

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Permalink Reply by Tom Wolfer on September 13, 2010 at 9:46am

Well, I am not sure about specific datamining schools here in Canada, but, I do know a business school in eastern Canada integrated datamining/informatics into the MBA program....

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Permalink Reply by shaohua zhang on September 13, 2010 at 12:40pm

Tom, the university you mentioned is Dalhousie University located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It offers Marketing Informatics course and Business Data Mining course in the MBA program. The courses are buisness oriented, they use sas enterprise miner for teaching. I took both courses in 2007. The two professors who teach the data mining courses are practitioners themselves. Very good courses for B school students.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Wolfer on September 14, 2010 at 7:47am

It is a small world. I attended Dalhousie from 1996 to 1998, and, I took all of the datamining courses. At that time, Danny Silver (who has since moved back to Acadia U.) and Terry Schellink (Marketing Informatics) were driving the integration of datamining into the MBA program. Also, there were several excellent courses through the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) that I took: eg. database design in Oracle/SQL which has come in quite handy for me on an pllied level. I also did practicums in which I was able to conduct hands-on datamining projects for companies. I also conducted a scholarship project regarding the integration of datamining technology into the course evaluation process.
It is actually from Dal that I ended up moving on to work as a predictive modeler and database specialist at Canada's largest in-house Loyalty Marketing (at least at the time) Petro-Points.

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Permalink Reply by Maria Thomadakis on October 18, 2010 at 1:21pm

Hi Tom,

Do you know of any other universities/colleges that offer a cert. in Data Mining in Canada? I have been searching for a week without any luck. I do not wish to take those part-time corporate learning courses that are at best five days in length because let's face it, that simply will not offer me the knowledge that I need.

Maria

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Permalink Reply by Tom Wolfer on October 18, 2010 at 2:05pm

Hello Maria, and thanks for your question.

1. You may want to try contacting the Dalhousie University School of Business (http://management.dal.ca/) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I believe that it still has a datamining stream as part of the business/library studies program.

2. I believe that the University of Toronto (http://www.utoronto.ca/) has a data mining graduate course and also incorporates data mining into its Engineering faculty.

Try these out and let me know how things go.

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Permalink Reply by Maria Thomadakis on October 18, 2010 at 2:42pm

I have contacted the founder of the program at UofT and he has not replied - rather disappointing. I have contact OSU, and am very interested in their program, but I will contact Dalhousie and see what they have to offer.

As an aside, thanks for the prompt reply. :)

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Permalink Reply by dabsy on October 18, 2010 at 11:41pm

OSU is very expensive too. I talked to the director about the program,out-of state tuition is over 2k for one class.

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Permalink Reply by Maria Thomadakis on October 19, 2010 at 11:55am

Yes, but any corporate training for BI is comparable and far less comprehensive.

Permalink Reply by dabsy on September 13, 2010 at 6:59pm

Hey,
I was looking into the OSU data mining.But the cost is too high for non-residents. What qualifies one to be a resident of OK?
Is there anyway to gain access to SAS enterprise miner,without going through SAS OnDemand? I have read lots of books on data mining,but had to chance to practice.

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Permalink Reply by dabsy on September 15, 2010 at 11:02am

Hey guys,
I need help or literature that will help in constructing research proposal in the application of data mining in drug designs/clincal trials/bioinformatics. I will like to incorporate the efficiency of half-normal plots in my research and this is not for undergraduate.
Thanks.

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