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Courses


From: Lisa Solomon

Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:14:50 -0700

Subject: Salford Free Data Mining Overview (CART, MARS, TreeNET), Sep 12-13, Washington, DC.

September 12th or 13th, Free Data Mining Overview, Washington, DC, (CART, MARS, TreeNET/MART)
Location: The Henley Park, 926 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 2000, Eton Room
Time: 9AM - 12PM

Contact Person: Lisa Solomon, 619-543-8880 x19, lisas@salford-systems.com

Join Salford Systems for one-hour long presentations at our open house in Washington DC, either Sept 12 or September 13. Learn from the winners of the KDDCup 2000 international data mining competition and raise your data mining skills to a new level..

Schedule:

  • 9AM-10AM, Introduction to Data Mining with CART Version 5.0. Covers key details of the classic decision tree methodology.
  • 10AM-11AM, Introduction to Automated Regression Modeling with MARS. Covers core concepts of multivariate adaptive regression splines, how the model is constructed and why it works. Applications to logistic regression.
  • 11AM-12PM, Introduction to TreeNet Stochastic Gradient Boosting. Modeling with multiple trees, boosting concepts, innovations of gradient boosting. For beginners!
To download fully functional evaluation versions of our software please visit http://www.salford-systems.com?lmp

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