I recently attended a Data mining class by Indian Statistical Institute with Prof. Subrata Rath as one of the faculties. He came off as a person with profound Management Common Sense. One of the main things he taught is was to discover/define our Purpose before starting a study. This provoked a lot of thought inside me. Purpose is larger than objectives or motive. I decided to pick a purpose nobler than the profit motive for my Data Mining Project. I have also been associated with Life sciences and Healthcare projects before and had some orientation about these. I decided to leverage my skills in this area and defined my purpose as:
"To better the physical and psychological condition of Human beings around us"
What followed after significant thought was a logical picking of a (non-sponsored) Clinical Trial as my project. I obviously needed raw data for this project. So i took off on the internet and after several searches on Google found a Clinical trial's raw data posted online. It was a Study done in 2004 and published already in BMJ. "Effects of Accupuncture on Migrane".
I am hoping I will learn something beyond what is already published in BMJ, (ambitious goal) At the minimum I hope to master the statistical modeling techniques we have already studied.
Keep watching this space !
Regards
Milind K Thombre
(comments welcome)
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