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Aug 29 - Sep 26, Modeling in R
Sudha Purohit, online course at statistics.com

Sep. 12 - Oct. 10, Introduction to Data Mining
Anthony Babinec, online course at statistics.com

Sep. 26 - Oct. 24 Natural Language Processing
Indurkhya & Damerau, online course at statistics.com

Oct. 17 - Nov. 14 Data Mining - Unsupervised Techniques
Anthony Babinec, online course at statistics.com

Oct. 31 - Nov. 28 Cluster Analysis
Anthony Babinec, online course at statistics.com

Nov 7 - Dec 5, 2008 Graphics in R
Paul Murrell, online course at statistics.com.

Oct. 31 - Dec. 5 Microarray Analysis in R
Purohit & Deshmukh, online course at statistics.com

"Data Mining" and "Cluster Analysis" is taught by Anthony Babinec, the president of AB Analytics and, previously, Director of Advanced Products Marketing at SPSS; he worked on the marketing of Clementine and introduced CHAID, neural nets and other advanced technologies to SPSS.

"Modeling in R" is taught by Sudha Purohit, who, prior to her retirement in 2000, was Head of the Department of Statistics at A. G. College, Pune, India. She is a co-author of Statistics Using R, Microarray Data: Statistical Analysis Using R, and several other texts in statistics.

"Graphics in R" is taught by Paul Murrell has been a member of the core development team for R since 1999. He is the past Chair of the Section for Statistical Graphics of the American Statistical Association, and has recently served as Editor-in-Chief of R News, the newsletter of the R project, and is an Associate Editor for Computational Statistics and The Journal of Statistical Software.

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