Operations & Info Management 454 - Data Mining in Business

Spring
2020
01
3.00
Rudolph Bedeley
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
47455
Sch of Management G27
rbedeley@isenberg.umass.edu
This course covers topics in managerial data mining, texting mining, and web mining, and related data retrieval and manipulation. Models in regression, clustering, neural nets, classification, and association rule mining are applied to business data sets. In this managerially focused course, students will learn when and how to use such techniques and how to interpret output. Students will also be introduced to languages such as R and Python to extract and manipulate data. Experiential exercises with data mining, text mining, and statistical analysis will be assigned using leading industry applications.
Open to Isenberg School of Management majors only. OIM 350 and 240/STAT & RES-EC OIM majors and Isenberg majors should monitor the course via SPIRE for seat availability. If you add yourself to the SPIRE wait list, please ensure you do not enroll in a course that conflicts with this course.
https://spire.umass.edu
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.