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I have recently left Xchange and am now an independent consultant, providing consulting services focusing on effective use of data mining for creating business value.

I will continue to run KDnuggets News and KDnuggets.com -- many thanks to all my readers for their support!

I am also announcing KDnuggets Consulting Services -- see www.kdnuggets.com/consulting.html or email to consulting at kdnuggets.com.

I have extensive experience in applying data mining to banking, telecom, and insurance in major companies in US, Europe, and Latin America. I also have significant experience in ecommerce, pharmaceutical, and retail fields.

I have done a number of smaller projects myself. For larger projects, I assembled and led teams of data miners, data analysts, business analysts, and software developers. A significant component of many projects was training data miners and analytic groups in client companies.

Major recent projects include: (see www.kdnuggets.com/gps.html for my full bio and experience)

• Presenting a clinic on Data Mining Methods to a major global bank
• Auditing data use in ecommerce company and identifying new business opportunities
• Developing value-attrition and optimized cross-sell models for a global financial institution
• Attrition models for credit products for a major US bank
• Analyzing e-tail operations and identifying cross-sell opportunities and shopping cart abandonment
• Mortgage default models for a major Latin American bank
• Analysis of reserve needs for a major car lease financing company
• Analysis of interest rate sensitivity for a major insurance company
• Retail customer segmentation and cross-sell modeling for a major European bank
• Analysis of system design and analytic architecture for a Japanese pharmaceutical company
• Developing attrition models for a major wireless phone company
• Analyzing healthcare data for a major US company

To get help with your analytic/data mining efforts, and to get better value from your data, contact consulting with a brief description of the issues.