West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics offers an online MS in Business Data Analytics program. What can students expect from the program, and what opportunities will they have to apply their skills using real-world data? We spoke with Dr. Virginia Kleist and Dr. Brad Price to find out. Dr. Brad Price is an […]

Chris Mattmann is a Principal Data Scientist and Chief Architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Instrument and Data Systems section. He helped develop the third generation of the Apache Object Oriented Data Technology data processing and information integration system. Throughout his career, he has contributed to several cutting-edge projects, including the NASA Orbiting […]

Catherine Truxillo, Ph.D., is Senior Manager in the Advanced Analytics Education group at SAS Institute, where she heads up development for the SAS Academy for Data Science. In 15 years at SAS, she has written or co-written courses in a number of areas of statistics and data analysis, predictive modeling, experimentation, multivariate statistics, structural equation […]

As a Data Scientist or Data Analyst, or one of the various other specialists focused on deriving valuable insights through the analysis of data, it goes without saying that data is the life-blood of your analytic world – the raw materials essential to your craft. But what do you do if the data doesn’t exist? […]

Gordon Rios is a principal scientist and founding member of Pandora’s Data Science Group, where he focuses on machine learning and music recommendations. He was previously a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Cork, Ireland, after a long career in internet services. Over the course of his career, Gordon has had the privilege of working with […]

Joel Sokol is founding director of Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Analytics degree, and Fouts Family Associate Professor in the Stewart School of ISyE. His research focuses on developing models and methods that provide new insights and make previously-intractable problems solvable. Dr. Sokol’s research has won the EURO Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize, […]

Dr. Elena Gortcheva is the Program Chair for the MS in Data Analytics and MS in Information Technology – Data Systems Technology in the Graduate School of the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Her research interests focus on data mining and intelligent systems, and she teaches courses in data mining and big data analytics. […]

Dr. Uday Kulkarni is an associate professor of information systems at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. He was the founding director of the University’s Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) degree program launched in 2005 and the online Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program launched in 2013. Dr. Kulkarni […]

Dr. Piotr Szczurek is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences and the Director of the Online Master of Science in Data Science program at Lewis University. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2012, where he was awarded the Integrative […]

Dr. Bei Yu is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Yu received education and training in multiple disciplines. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, earned a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, […]