The Institute was honored to have Dr. John Elder, a leader in the field of data mining, predictive analytics, and text mining, deliver the capstone guest lecture of the fall semester for students in the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2015. Dr. Elder is an award-winning author on techniques for practical data mining, ensembles and text mining. Founder of Elder Research in 1995, his company works on a wide variety of data and text mining projects. Dr. Elder was joined by two Elder Research colleagues and Institute alumni, Gerhard Pilcher (MSA 2011) and Daniel Bailey (MSA 2013).
The Institute is grateful to all of the companies that visited during the fall semester to speak with our students:
- Epic Games
- SAS
- Lockheed Martin
- Boeing
- Tata Consultancy Services
- Disney
- JP Morgan Chase
- Deloitte Consulting
- M&T Bank
- LatentView Analytics
- Caterpillar
- Discover Financial Services
- United Airlines
- HanesBrands
- EMI
- Cisco Systems
- RTI International
- Inmar
- Eastman Chemical
- Carlise and Gallagher
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Hexis Cyber Solutions
- Verisk Health
- Ernst & Young
- Kurt Salmon
- Elder Research