One of the topics we're looking into this week are various analytical techniques we can apply to data. They're on slide 10 in the first deck:

Pick one of these techniques and think of a question that a business may have that could be answered using it. Why would a business want to have the answer? Why would it be valuable to them? I'm looking forward to your suggestions!

- Classification and class probability estimation - Profiling (behavior description) - Value estimation - Link prediction - Similarity matching - Data reduction - Clustering - Causal modeling - Co-occurrence grouping (itemset mining, association rule discovery, market-basket analysis)