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Center for Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence (CAABI)
Newsletter, Volume 1, Fall 04.
CAABI – Serving business, students, and the Tech community since
January, 2004.
Administrative Information
Mission of CAABI:
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Director: Dr. Peter H.
Westfall, Area of Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences, Jerry S.
Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Technical Assistant: John Walter, MIS student.
Web Page: http://caabi.ba.ttu.edu/
Activities
CAABI has been in operation since January, 2004, and has sponsored the following
(mostly ongoing) activities:
Business Outreach Projects:
- Tyco Production Facility
- Reduce waste by improving their data capture and
delivery systems
- Improve machine/worker efficiencies by utilize data
mining tools
- A large automotive manufacturing company
- Reduce inventory on lot by mining data base
- A large consumer products company
- Integrate disparate corporate data bases to aid
managerial decisions
- Improve human resource management by mining employee
SAP databases
- Identify sales team-based action levers to improve
margins
- APICS organization
Education and Placement
- Offered the class “Directed Studies in Business
Intelligence” Spring ’04
- Students submitted a
paper to the student
APICS competition.
- A collection of student papers
were written on various aspects of BI, including text mining using
freeware, market mix models, business intelligence for financial
institutions, and web mining.
- Offering “Data and Text Mining for Business
Intelligence” Fall 04. The course will utilize business intelligence
software of SAS Institute, and will serve Masters and Doctoral students.
- Sponsored McNair scholar in
data mining research project.
- Developed SAS certificate program in Data Mining for
TTU students
- Developed an undergraduate emphasis on Business
Intelligence for current and future MIS majors
- Placed an MBA student in credit scoring job
Research
- Grid computing project
- Networked lab machines to create supercomputer to
reduce compute time by a factor of 100.
- Used in two publications (Hein
and Westfall, 2004, and
Bremer et al., 2004) with further projects planned.
- Secured 300 licenses of SAS software for grid
research project at savings of over $20,000 over nominal academic cost.
- Bioinformatics
- Participating in genetics grant application with Dr.
San Francisco, Biology
- Neural imaging
- Participating in research by Dr. Rockefeller Young,
TTUHSC department of ophthalmology
CAABI Sponsorship
- Course in Six Sigma, taught in the ISQS department by Dr.
Pat Smith, Research Professor in ISQS, with software and training
opportunities. Recently, CAABI sponsored Dr. Smith’s attendance at a
conference on incorporating Six Sigma methods in Health Organization
Management.
- SAS training in data mining, test mining and SQL for
director, Summer 04.
For further information please
contact:
Dr. Peter H. Westfall, James and Marguerite Niver and Paul
Whitfield Horn Professor of Statistics and Director, Center for Advanced
Analytics and Business Intelligence. Area of Information Systems and
Quantitative Sciences, Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas
Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-2101 Ofc: 806-742-2174 Fax: 806-742-3193
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