Instructor
Gerhard Pilcher, M.S., President and CEO, Elder Research, Inc.,Gerhard enjoys predictive analytics and data mining -- especially related to the areas of Fraud Detection, Financial Risk Management, and Health Care -- working with people, leading change, and managing complex projects to timely success. His work experience spans private, government, and international sectors. Gerhard is coauthor of the popular book Mining Your Own Business, that arms executives and senior managers to make better decisions based on discoveries from their organization’s data. The book is frequently recommended as a readable introduction to data science and a useful reference for specific, daily guidance. Gerhard taught at Georgetown University as an adjunct faculty member in the Math and Statistics Master’s degree program. He has also taught the hands-on SAS Business Knowledge Series course "Data Mining: Principles and Best Practices" and is a frequent invited speaker at domestic and international conferences. Gerhard serves on the Institute for Advanced Analytics Advisory Board, and on George Washington University’s Advisory Board for the Business Analytics graduate program. He was named to the NC State Computer Science Department’s “Hall of Fame” in 2018, its inaugural year. I am qualified to teach this course because of my background in healthcare, analytics, information systems and positively engaging students in a learning environment that challenges the students (and me!) to grow our collective body of knowledge and experience. Potential students may be interested to know that I’m a poor writer, but I persistently continue to practice writing to improve my skill. I love to read and, thankfully, I’m pretty good at it. I coauthored my book as a way to express gratitude to all of the people who have or will in the future have the courage to share their knowledge through writing. As much reading as I like to do, there is a mountain of debt to cover for others’ efforts.
Textbook Information
Textbooks for your course may be purchased from any vendor or bookseller of your choice.
Required Textbook(s):
Mining Your Own Business
Book - ISBN: 9780996712101
Jeff Deal, Gerhard Pilcher, Data Science Publishing
Data Strategy and the Enterprise Data Executive
Book - ISBN: 9781634622172
P. Aiken, T. Harbour, 1 ed, Technics Publications
Meeting Schedule
| Event | Date | Day | Start Time | End Time | Location | Room |
| START | 04/17/2023 | Monday | --- | --- | Online (Access Begins) | --- |
| END | 06/11/2023 | Sunday | --- | --- | Online (Access Ends) | --- |