So you have taken Stat 205/206 and you wonder, "What good is it? What can I do with it?" Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, has some advice for you:

"If you are looking for a career where your services will be in high demand, you should find something where you provide a scarce, complementary service to something that is getting ubiquitous and cheap. So what's getting ubiquitous and cheap? Data. And what is complementary to data? Analysis. So my recommendation is to take lots of courses about how to manipulate and analyze data: databases, machine learning, econometrics, statistics, visualization, and so on."

You can read the entire interview with Varian at Varian Interview

You will learn all these techniques in a datamining course. I am thinking of offering a datamining course for B&E majors. Datamining is the statistical analysis of large databases. To be a dataminer requires, at a minimum, several courses. To be able to assist a dataminer or to be useful in a datamining environment requires only one course -- this one -- if you're a B&E major and have already taken Stat 205/206.

The course will use the text by Olson and Shi as well as supplementary notes that I am writing. In addition, real datamining software will (hopefully) be provided at no or little cost, to be used with big datasets that also will be provided.

To get a feel for what datamining is all about, try the following links:
Kurt Thearling
About Databases

I am not asking for a firm commitment that you will take the course. But if you think you would like to take this course, please email me bdmccullough@drexel.edu and let me know. Put "B&E Datamining Course" in the subject line. I will make a list and keep everyone apprised of whether/when the course will be offered.

If you are 99% sure that you will take this course if it's offered, please so indicate.

Finally, I think it might be an evening course to maximize the opportunity for people to take it. Tell me what you think of this idea.