Business Intelligence Support Site

A Free Service for those Interested in Business Intelligence. 

This site is always under construction.   

Information Prepared by Jim Bozeman, PMP; Anthony Boles, PMP and Craig A. Stevens, PMP

and the PMI IT/IS LIG Co-chairs Angie Bates, Randy Inskeep, Gail Doss, and Jim White. 

Page Table of Contents

1. Comparing Project Management, Business Analysis, and Business Intelligence to Change Management, PMI IT/IS BI LIG Meeting

2. Introduction to Business Intelligence, PMI LIG IT/IS Meeting

3. Anthony Boles with an Introduction to BI

4. Craig A. Stevens with an Introduction to Data Mining

5. Jim Bozeman with an Introduction to BI Dash Boards

6. A few Questions and Answers

7. Interesting Links For BI and PM

Comparing Project Management, Business Analysis, and Business Intelligence to Change Management, PMI IT/IS BI LIG Meeting

Introduction to Business Intelligence PMI LIG IT/IS Meeting

08/19/2008 Panel Presentations for the Nashville, Tennessee, Project Management Institute's (PMI) IT/IS local interest group (LIG) on BI subgroup. 

Important:  PMI PDU Code 20080819IT has been changed to 200808IT

Anthony Boles with an Introduction to BI

 PowerPoint Slides Anthony Boles Presentation Slides on Data Mining Intro

Craig A. Stevens with an Introduction to Data Mining

PowerPoint Slides Craig A. Stevens Presentation Slides on Data Mining Intro

or PDF FILE

Example of Classical Statistics

Interesting moving multiple regression pictures used in Craig's Presentation on 8/19/2008 for UCLA.   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/faq/spplot/reg_int_cont.htm

Examples of Data Mining Graphics:

Example of Data from the Blogosphere

http://datamining.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/livejournal.png 

Data Mining area in Yellow

Example of SAS Enterprise Miner Screen (object based programing)

Example of a Graph from SAS Enterprise Miner (narrowing hundreds of variables down to the ones that actually matter)

Example of a Graph from SAS Enterprise Miner (showing a few critical variables)

Example of a Graph from SAS Enterprise Miner (showing in red the actual t scores in red on the right side of the normal curve which would be the variables that would most interest us)

Example of Graph from SAS Enterprise Miner (showing the variable cut off points for Profit and comparing different analysis methods)

Example of Graph from SAS Enterprise Miner (showing the variable cut off points for Profit and comparing different analysis methods)

Example of a Critical Path Type Variable Chain and Decision Tree Analysis from SAS Enterprise Miner

Example of a Decision Trees for Predictive Modeling by Padraic G. Neville SAS Institute Inc. 4 August 1999 

Example of Clustering Data From SAS Enterprise Miner

Data Mining Art found at http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/dataviz/page/2/

Check out the genealogical tree on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnniJR5Ah7g 

Jim Bozeman with an Introduction to BI Dash Boards

Jim Bozeman PMP, PowerPoint Slides

TEST DATA

A few Questions and Answers

Interesting Links For BI and PM

FOR A FREE GERONIMO STONE eBOOK on the Seven Attributes of Excellent Management Download the Geronimo Stone Book Here

or go to http://www.llumina.com/store/geronimostone2.htm

Links to research sites.. http://www.westbrookstevens.com/links_to_others.htm

Link to Stats Support Site Under Construction.  http://www.westbrookstevens.com/statistical_tools.htm

Link to Project Management Support Site Under Construction. http://www.westbrookstevens.com/project_management1.htm

Link to Change Management Site Under Construction.

http://www.westbrookstevens.com/Phase_5.htm

Link to BA Support Site Under Construction.