1. Find recent cases of successful data mining applications. Visit the Web sites of some data mining vendors and look for cases or success stories. Prepare a report summarizing five new case studies....

1. Find recent cases of successful data mining applications. Visit the Web sites of some data mining vendors and look for cases or success stories. Prepare a report summarizing five new case studies.

2. Go to vendor Web sites (especially those of SAS, SPSS, Cognos, Teradata, StatSoft, and Fair Isaac) and look at success stories for BI (OLAP and data mining) tools. What do the various success stories have in common? How do they differ?