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is the only university-developed and -offered online program in data mining. The
program was featured in the Hartford Courant. Sinking A Mine Shaft Into
Data By ROBERT A. FRAHM NEW BRITAIN -- As businesses, government, universities and others churn out a relentless and growing flood of information, you never know what gem might be hidden in the data. A promising sales plan, perhaps? A winning NBA game strategy? A terrorist plot? Whatever it is, Daniel T. Larose can help you find it. Larose, a statistics professor at Central Connecticut State University, is training a new generation of specialists to tap into vast amounts of data using high-powered computers and a promising technique known as data mining. Larose's popular Internet-based program - the world's only online master's degree program in data mining, according to Central - attracts students from all over the United States and several foreign countries. Larose introduces them to statistical models that can extract information from databases too massive for conventional analysis. Data mining - the use of technology to recognize obscure or hidden patterns in giant masses of data - has been in the news lately, mostly as a tool to track terrorists. But Larose says the technique could benefit everyone from booksellers studying readers' buying habits to pharmaceutical companies looking for a cure for cancer. "It's going to be everywhere," said Larose. The article in its entirety is available in the Archives of the CTNow.com website.
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