Seeing the staircase: Reflections on a first semester teaching data mining to business students
Seeing the staircase: Reflections on a first semester teaching data mining to business students

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author presents several challenges associated with teaching a technical subject that blends statistics, computer science, and specific subject-matter knowledge to an academically-accomplished but mostly non-technical audience. He also talks about some of the difficulties that he faced as an instructor dealing with three levels of newness: the course was brand new, so there was no prior blueprint upon which to fall back; the concepts presented in the course were completely new to the students; and some of the material was relatively new to him as well. After describing these challenges, he shares several lessons learned regarding instructional material and approaches that succeeded with the audience, as well as some candid reflections about areas in which he can improve future iterations of the course.

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