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At the April 30th meeting of the Washington Chapter of the Independent Computer Consultants Association (WICCA), Dr. Jen Q. Louie and Ms. Dorothy Firsching of Nautilus Systems will introduce data mining and how it is being used by today's leading companies to make them more competitive.

As data marts and data warehouses become more common, and data quality concerns are addressed, those repositories can be "mined" using a variety of techniques.   Knowledge discovery in data (KDD) reveals trends and patterns that no one had even thought to ask. This presentation will be an update and enhancement to the one given last fall to WICCA in Rockville, MD.

This meeting will be at the Marco Polo restaurant in Vienna, Virginia.  The cost is $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers, and includes dinner.  Please RSVP by calling the WICCA hotline, (301) 469-5880. Doors open at 6:30 for drinks and networking prior to dinner. Details, including directions, are available on the WICCA web site, wicca.icca.org.

At the April 22nd meeting of the Desktop Special Interest Group of the Washington, DC SAS User's Group, Dr. Jen Q. Louie and Ms. Dorothy Firsching of Nautilus Systems will introduce data mining and how it is being used by today's leading companies.

Across industries, companies are recognizing the value of data they have, hidden in customer transactions and other operational data. The challenge is to identify trends and patterns that are meaningful and take action to improve both market position and bottom line.

As data marts and data warehouses become more common, and data quality concerns are addressed, those repositories can be "mined" using a variety of techniques. These techniques range from ad hoc queries, to on-line analytical processing (OLAPs), to statistical analysis (e.g., SAS, SPSS), to data mining/knowledge discovery. Knowledge discovery in data (KDD) reveals trends and patterns that no one had even thought to ask.

The meeting will be at 7:30 on April 22nd, at Westat.  Westat is located at 1550 Research Blvd., Room 2030C, in Rockville, MD.  There is a guard at the front door and parking is free. There is no fee.  Please RSVP by calling David Barnes at (301) 350-4752 or send him e-mail at Appalt@aol.com. Nautilus Systems will present an introduction to Data Mining for SAS Users at the April 1998 meeting of the National Capital Chapter of the SAS Users Group.

This paper was presented by Dr. Louie at the First Federal Data Mining Symposium sponsored by AFCEA, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, on December 17, 1997. The paper was published in the conference proceedings, which may be ordered from AFCEA at (703) 631-6126 or send email to events@afcea.org.

We also participated on a Special Panel Session, "Data Mining and the Government - Are They Ready for a Relationship?".The panel was led by Dr. Larry Kerschberg, Professor of the Department of Information and Software Systems Engineering at George Mason University. Herb Edelstein of Two Crows Corporation, Dr. Maria Zemankova of the National Science Foundation, and Dr. Ryszard S. Michalski of George Mason University were also on the panel. Dr. Kerschberg has put the panel presentations on his web site, at http://cise.krl.gmu.edu/~kersch/AFCEA/.

At the October 30th meeting of the Washington Chapter of the Independent Computer Consultants Association (WICCA), Dr. Jen Q. Louie and Ms. Dorothy Firsching of Nautilus Systems presented an introduction to data mining and how it is being used by today's leading companies.

Across industries, companies are recognizing the value of data they have, hidden in customer transactions and other operational data. The challenge is to identify trends and patterns that are meaningful and take action to improve both market position and bottom line.

As data marts and data warehouses become more common, and data quality concerns are addressed, those repositories can be "mined" using a variety of techniques. These techniques range from ad hoc queries, to on-line analytical processing (OLAPs), to statistical analysis (e.g., SAS, SPSS), to true data mining/knowledge discovery. Knowledge discovery in data (KDD) reveals trends and patterns that no one had even thought to ask. In fact, data mining/KDD can even be used to help determine how to effectively design the data warehouse.