Mario Schkolnick, Silicon Graphics
"Visual Data Mining"
September 22, Friday 10:30am, A.V. Williams Building 3258
Abstract
In the last few years, Data Mining has gained popularity as a powerful tool
for improving strategic decision making. Data Mining is a complex set of
tasks that produce actionable results. The most critical aspect of the data
mining process is that of understanding the data we are dealing with.
Data visualization and model visualization, when used in conjunction with
analytic data mining algorithms can significantly enhance the data mining
process. The talk will examine the role that visualization plays in this
process. The presentation will use MineSet, a visual data mining platform we
have developed at SGI.
Bio
Mario Schkolnick is a Director of Engineering at SGI. He leads the team that
has developed MineSet. Before joining SGI, he was as at IBM Research and was
also on the faculty at CMU. He is currently the General Chairman for the KDD
2001 conference. Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Dr. Schkolnick is eager to talk to potential new hires (PhD & MS levels).
Those interested should meet with him after the talk, and he will take a
selected number out to lunch