The latest KDnuggets Poll asked Industries / Fields where you applied Analytics / Data Mining in 2011?
The top 10 industries were
- CRM/ consumer analytics, 25.0%
- Banking, 18.9%
- Health care/ HR, 16.7%
- Education, 16.2%
- Fraud Detection, 14.0%
- Science, 13.6%
- Social Networks, 13.2%
- Credit Scoring, 12.7%
- Insurance, 12.3%
- Direct Marketing/ Fundraising, 12.3%
- Travel / Hospitality, 429% up
- Social Networks, 100% up
- Education, 65% up
- Biotech/Genomics, 64% up
- Credit Scoring, 59% up
- Software (not asked in 2010)
- Manufacturing, -34%
- Advertising, -29%
- e-Commerce, -25%
- Investment / Stocks, -22%
- Web usage mining, -21%
Comments:
Gregory PS
@iBridge applied data mining to legal industry. I see there a lot of work for text analytics and e-discovery, but have not seen predictive analytics
Guest
regarding an increase in application of data mining to education, see also job ads for Data Scientists at Knewton ( a company that aims to change the practice of education with a powerful adaptive learning engine)
www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/11/11-29-knewton-data-scientists.html