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Data Sciences Analytics - The Art and Science of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

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Data analytics is the analysis of datasets with whatever statistical analysis, machine learning or data mining technique is appropriate. We are consultants based in Sydney, Australia.

I (John Aitchison) have had more than 20 years experience with, and enjoyment of, the probing, exploration, analysis, modelling, interpretation and reporting of datasets : data sets from market research surveys and elsewhere.

Multivariate statistical analysis with a data mining/machine learning flavor (flavour).

Where my work differs from that of other statisticians is, I suppose, that I work mostly with data that others have collected (it could be market research survey data, or financial datasets, or business records, or databases). And I probably do more programming than most ..applications programming such as accessing the databases, delivering the results in some computer based model or application program, and algorithmic programming - I recently completed a Support Vector Machine implementation in Delphi, and am currently working on a visual/spatial hybrid between classification and clustering.

While I do get involved in research design - and I have a viewpoint on this : research design should be driven by a clear vision of what analyses the generated dataset will permit - and have years of hands on experience in data collection (but we don't do that any more), "statistics" is such a vast and expanding area that I think it sensible to state my area of expertise as "data analytics", rather than general purpose statistical consulting.

Added on: Apr 21st, 2007
Country: Australia
Language: English