Certificate Program in Data Mining from statistics.com

If you have been considering a certificate program in data mining, this information (below) from statistics.com will be of interest - Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

Dear KDnuggets reader:

Have you thought about taking the steps to earn a certificate in data mining? The field is growing and changing - this means the best jobs go to those with hands-on skills and recognized credentials. Here are some reasons to consider a data mining certificate program from statistics.com:

1. Statistics.com is the leader in online statistics education - over 90 courses, taught by leading experts (who are often the authors of noted textbooks in their field).
2. Our breadth of data mining courses is unmatched (classification and prediction, unsupervised learning, decision trees, clustering, text mining, support vector machines, natural language processing, plus a host of related courses in statistics).
3. Our tuition rates are typically half what you would pay at a major university. We focus only on what we do best - top notch statistics and data mining faculty, well-designed readings and hands-on exercises, personalized review of your homework and projects by TA's with masters in statistics, our own customized online platform. With our operations online since 2002, we don't need to support top heavy administration or maintain buildings and grounds.
4. You won't have to wait years to take the courses you need. Our key courses are offered twice a year, and our entry-level statistics prerequisites courses start every 8 weeks.
5. Take our courses while you work - they last 4 weeks and require about 15 hours per week. Study from any computer where you have internet access. There are no set days or times when you need to be online.
6. With statistics.com's convenient course format, you can keep building your skills and stay current with new developments even after you get your certificate. Many of our students come back and take a course or two every year.

Prerequisite: Introductory Statistics, or the equivalent

Required courses:

• Introduction to Data Mining
• Data Mining: Unsupervised Techniques
• Regression Analysis
• Text Mining
• Logistic Regression

Elective courses - Choose 4 from among: Advanced Logistic Regression, Matrix Algebra Review, Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data with R, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Principal Components and Factor Analysis, Multivariate Statistics, Introduction to Resampling Methods, Natural Language Processing, Bootstrap Methods, Introduction to Quantitative Risk Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Missing Data Analysis, Introduction to Support Vector Machines in R, Decision Trees and Rule-Based Segmentation

Application fee: $75
Certificate Program Registration Fee: $495
Estimated tuition (depends on exact courses chosen): $3,966

Hope to see you online.
Sincerely,

Peter Bruce
statistics.com, President
ourcourses@statistics.com

P.S. Enrollees in statistics.com's PASS program in Data Mining are eligible to sign up for all statistics.com courses at academic tuition rates, for substantial savings.