How can you use data mining in your career? Well, that depends on your field, explains Dr. Morgan Wang, Professor and Director of Statistics at the University of Central Florida:
If you are in computer science, you can use data mining techniques to detect threatening viruses and protect yourself against an invasion. Suppose you’re in transportation; by gathering and analyzing traffic data, you can determine how many toll booths you need open on a highway at a time to achieve maximum efficiency. Or if you’re majoring in biology and want to track a species – say, the number of alligators in Florida – how do you accomplish this? Statistics.
Wang, who established
The Data Mining Program at the University of Central Florida, is featured in
a new SAS customer success story, where he says,
“I don’t know of a scientific field that does not rely on statistics and data mining.”
Tech Report Editor Waynette Tubbs made a similar observation in her most recent newsletter, asking:
"Are analysts and statisticians the stars of 2010 and beyond?" She cites Thornton May and
The New York Times in her editor's note, where she explains why
so many sources are calling analytics the best career for the next decade.
