(The Modeling Agency: Pittsburgh) -- The Modeling Agency (TMA), a data-mining training, consulting, and solutions company, announces a restructuring of its popular “Predictive Analytics & Data Mining” course series. The two-course series offers two distinct orientations with complementary objectives: Model Development, to drill into model-building tactics and methods; and Strategic Implementation, for project design and discovering what really works.

The two courses span five days with the final two days in a hands-on lab setting. Each course within the series may be attended independently or in succession for a comprehensive view of data mining. The Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) provides an overview of the courses. The Model Development course focuses on the tactical CRISP-DM sections 3, 4, and 5, while the Strategic Implementation course covers the project design and deployment sections 1, 2 and 6.

New topics, expanded sections, and a more diverse faculty provide a pragmatic, nonpromotional orientation to data mining best practices and predictive analytics. Additional improvements include:

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