I am an independent Statistics and Data Mining trainer. I keep pretty busy teaching people how to use related software. I also consult when I can because I love using real data, and producing results that will be put to immediate use.
I have been using Stats software tools since the early 90s, and have been training since 1997. I have been data mining and using Modeler since its arrival in North America. I am an expert in SPSS Inc.'s software suite including SPSS Statistics, SPSS Modeler (Clementine), AMOS, and Text Analysis, and Classification Trees. I don't think that analyzing data is only about "point and click", but it sure does save a lot of time when you know all the tricks. My career path has had some twists and turns. I studied in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) Computer Science Dept. until concluding that computer programming full time was not for me. I was really more interested in Psychometrics, Educational Psychology, and Epistemology. However, my military scholarship obligated me to get a Computer Science degree. The compromise was an Interdisciplinary degree in all of the above that my committee and I called "Artificial and Natural Intelligence". That combination resulted in several conference presentations and a keynote presentation concerning standardized testing and learning styles. That, in turn, landed me a long term consulting gig with the non-profit founded by the author of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). It was my first real introduction to using SPSS all day, everyday. {Much MBTI research tends to be more qualitative than quantitative, but the instrument itself is not to blame. It was first published by ETS.}
After that, some graduate classes at UNC-Chapel Hill, and some SPSS training, I found myself teaching thousands of people how to use it themselves. I now work in marketing research, survey analysis, predictive modeling, data mining, helping friends with their dissertation work, and many other areas. I am always coming across cool stuff on the web, or chatting with someone during a break about the latest thing, and never manage to keep track of it all. I hope this web site helps me do that and benefits others along the way.
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