One of the challenges in leading the foresight program is keeping up with new tools and approaches to supplement the core curriculum. Perhaps no topic is receiving more buzz than big data and analytics and how they might influence the practice of foresight. At last year’s Spring Gathering “Scanning the Fringe,” our very own alum Anne Boysen gave an outstanding presentation on Data Analytics for Scanning. I was sold, and asked Anne if she’d be willing to put together a summer course on the broader topic, and I’m so pleased to announce that she will be teaching a “Data Mining” course this summer. Among the many juicy topics are:
- Using Rapidminer & R
- Data mining in exponential times
- Decision Trees
- Neural Networks
- Text Mining and NLP
- Foresight in Machine Learning
Check out “How Data Science Enhances Foresight” at Futurist.com.
This is sure to be a very valuable course. And it’s so great to find someone in the Houston Foresight community who can do the job for us! — Andy Hines
