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Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics (Video Collection)
Published by Pearson (March 30, 2023)
ISBN-13: 9780138227944
Product Information
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics (Video Collection) brings a holistic, approachable, and best practice-driven learning experience to predictive and prescriptive analytics. Trainer Dursun Delen gives direct instruction in the Foundations, Methods, Applications, and Best Practices to the highest pillars of business analytics. You will learn fundamental concepts, methods, and algorithms of business analytics and data mining, as well as their application areas and best practices. Take a deep dive into prescriptive analytics by learning foundational concepts, methods, and methodologies as well as their application areas, the best practices, a variety of software tools, and how to use those tools to identify the best decision for a given, often overly complex, real-world problem.
This collection includes the following courses:
- Predictive Analytics, 2nd Edition
- Prescriptive Analytics for Optimal Decision-Making
Predictive Analytics
Lesson 1: Introduction to Predictive Analytics
Lesson 2: Introduction to Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
Lesson 3: The Data Mining Process
Lesson 4: Data and Methods in Data Mining
Lesson 5: Data Mining Algorithms
Lesson 6: Text Analytics and Text Mining
Lesson 7: Big Data Analytics
Lesson 8: Predictive Analytics Best Practices
Prescriptive Analytics
Lesson 1: Introduction to Prescriptive Analytics and Optimal Decision-Making
Lesson 2: Optimal Decision-Making with Lineal Programming
Lesson 3: Heuristic Optimization with Evolutionary/Genetic Algorithms
Lesson 4: Simulation Modelling for Decision-Making
Lesson 5: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods
Lesson 6: Expert System-Based Decisioning Systems
Lesson 7: The Future of Prescriptive Analytics
Dr. Dursun Delen is an internationally renowned expert in business analytics, data science, machine learning, and data mining. He is often invited to national and international conferences to deliver keynote presentations on topics related to data/text mining, business intelligence, decision support systems, business analytics, data science, and knowledge management. Prior to his appointment as a professor at Oklahoma State University in 2001, Dr. Delen worked in industry for more than 15 years, developing and delivering business analytics solutions to companies. His most recent industrial work was at a privately owned applied research and consulting company, Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (kbsi.com), in College Station, Texas, as a research scientist. During his five years at KBSI, Dr. Delen led a number of projects related to decision support systems, enterprise engineering, information systems development, and advanced business analytics that were funded by private industry and federal agencies, including several branches of the Department of Defense, NASA, National Science Foundation, National Institute for Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy. Today, in addition to his academic endeavors, Dr. Delen provides professional education, mentoring, and consulting services to businesses in assessing their analytics, data science and information system needs, and helping them in developing state-of-the-art computerized decision support systems.