Data Mining
MIT Sloan School of Management's course on extracting managerial insight from large data repositories built up through e-commerce, banking, point-of-sale, and other electronic capture systems. The course surveys techniques that emerged from statistics and artificial intelligence for recognizing patterns and making predictions, covering applications such as credit rating, fraud detection, database marketing, customer relationship management, and stock market investment. Students get hands-on experimentation with data mining algorithms using accessible software and real business cases rather than pure theory. Materials come from MIT OpenCourseWare and include readings, cases, and assignments, offered free of charge with no certificate. The course targets students who want practical exposure to building predictive models for managerial decisions.