Poll

Data mining courses you want to attend in 2005 [460 votes total] Data mining Tools and Methods (44) 10% Text mining (41) 9% Statistical learning (41) 9% Data mining for CRM, Attrition & Cross-Sell (40) 9% Data mining for Security and Fraud detection (37) 8% Time-series (36) 8% Data Quality and Cleaning (33) 7% Classification and Clustering (32) 7% Introduction to Data mining (29) 6% Hands-on workshop (28) 6% Link analysis and mining (23) 5% Web content mining (23) 5% Web usage mining (22) 5% Data mining for Bioinformatics (21) 5% Other (10) 2%

Comments

Karl, Course funding & quality
RW is right to observe that there are far fewer courses in Europe. Of course the key thing needed to persuade someone to run a course is enough people who have employers willing to pay for them to go on it. Could this have something to do with the dirth of European courses?

Also, while the US clearly has a large number of courses, I wonder what their attendees think about their quality? Maybe a poll on course-goer satisfaction would tell us something useful.

Robert Wiering, Courses in Europe
Most of the data mining courses are organised in the USA. It is hardly possible to find a course in Europe. I found only one good course in the Netherlands and none in Germany or Belgium!