Instructors:
"Successful Data Mining"

Dr. Richard De Veaux & Herbert Edelstein

Dr. Richard De Veaux is an associate of Two Crows Consulting. He has been a consultant for over 15 years for such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, First USA Bank, Dupont, Pillsbury, Rohm and Haas, General Electric, and Chemical Bank. He has taught at the Wharton School, the Princeton University School of Engineering, and since 1994 has been a professor in the Math Department of Williams College. He has won numerous teaching awards including a Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence in Teaching from the Engineering Council at Princeton. He is an internationally known lecturer and has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards from the American Society for Quality for his presentations. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Dick holds two U.S. patents and is the author of over 25 refereed technical articles. Dick has degrees in Civil Engineering (B.S.E., Princeton), Mathematics, (A.B., Princeton), Dance Education (M.A., Stanford) and Statistics (Ph.D., Stanford).

Herbert Edelstein is President of Two Crows Consulting. He is an internationally recognized expert in data warehousing, data mining and customer relationship management, and consults to both computer vendors and users. His expertise has been recognized with numerous invitations to chair and keynote conferences on these topics. He is a founder of The Data Warehousing Institute. A widely published author, he has also co-edited two books on data warehousing and is co-author of the Two Crows reports on data mining. Prior to Two Crows, Mr. Edelstein was a founding partner of Euclid Associates, a consulting firm specializing in data warehousing and data management. Mr. Edelstein was also vice president of marketing and sales at Sybase, vice president of marketing and sales at International Database Systems, general manager of the Model 204 division of Computer Corporation of America, and a consultant for American Management Systems. He has degrees from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie-Mellon University.