Latest Topics in Data Analytics
MinneMUDAC 2018 Data Science Challenge
UMD's team won "Best Prediction" for 2018 Midterm Elections Voter Turnout ... Read more...
MinneMUDAC 2017 Data Analytics Competition
UMD's team was finalist ... Read more...
Optum - combining data, analytics and technology for healthcare
Human face of Big Data
IBM's Watson analytics meets data security
A Renaissance in decision sciences or data science?
What is business intelligence
or data analytics?
Corporations are making billions from it.
Privacy advocates are crying foul.
Universities can't get enough hired to teach
and research about it. Some consider data to
be the "new oil" the "new class of economic
asset."
- In 1962 John W. Tukey writes about “The Future of Data Analysis". Read the Forbes article
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro organizes and chairs the first Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) workshop in 1989.
- In 2005 Thomas H. Davenport, Don Cohen, and Al Jacobson publish “Competing on Analytics"
- Usama Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Padhraic Smyth publish “From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery in Databases in the Communications of the ACM in 1996
- The term "Data Science" is used by William S. Cleveland in 2001 to distinguish it from statistics in “Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding the Technical Areas of the Field of Statistics."
- In 2009 Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, tells the McKinsey Quarterly: “I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.
- Tom Davenport and D.J. Patil publish “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” in the Harvard Business Review in 2012.
Resources
Resources on analytics are vast and cover many disciplines. These resources focus on both the techniques as well as business implications of data analytics
Textbooks lead the list followed by articles and online resources. CLick on Read More to get more than 16 free data science books
- Introduction to Data Mining, 2nd Ed. Nov 2014 by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, Addison-Wesley
- Data mining concepts and techniques, 3rd Ed Han, Jiawei. Kamber, Micheline; Pei, Jian Waltham, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers c2012
- Business Intelligence, by Efraim TURBAN, Ramesh SHARDA, Dursun DELEN, Dave King, 3rd Ed, Prentice Hall, 2013
- Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 3rd Ed by Ian Whitten, Iebe Frank and Mark Hall, Morgan Kaufmann 2011
Publications, Events and Work in Progress
Critical Data Analytics
The vast majority of work in data science is being undertaken with the assumption that the "science" is neutral. History is fated to repeat itself.
Not enough is being done in the IS field to
address the ethical and societal
implications of data analytics and big data
- Hassan, N. R. (2019). Where Are We Headed in Business Analytics? A Framework Based on a Paradigmatic Analysis of the History of Analytics. Paper presented at the 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 15-18, Munich, Germany.
- Hassan, N. R. (2019) "The origins of business analytics and implications for the information systems field" Journal of Business Analytics, 2(2): 118-133.
- MinneMUDAC 2018 Data Science Challenge - LSBE Team Won Best Prediction!
- MinneMUDAC 2017 Analytics Competition - UMD Finalists!
- WIP-Critical data analytics
- WIP-Ethical foundations for business
- The dark side of data mining and data science
