Abbott Analytics, Inc. leads organizations through the process of applying and integrating leading-edge data mining methods to marketing, research and business endeavors. Abbott Analytics, Inc. is dedicated to improving your efficiency, tax compliance, profitability, and research through data mining. Recent data mining consulting engagements include fraud detection, acquisition and churn models, survey analysis, models for predictive toxicology, and exploratory data analysis. Recent training engagements include workshops to accelerate company effectiveness in data mining using Clementine (SPSS, an IBM Company), Statistica (StatSoft, Inc.), Enterprise Miner (SAS), CART (Salford Systems), Affinium Model (Unica Corporation), and Tibco Spotfire Miner (Tibco). As a data mining researcher over the past 21 years, its founder and lead data mining expert, Dean Abbott, has applied advanced data mining, data preparation, and data visualization methods to real-world business challenges to help organizations gain valuable insight into their data. Dean is effective both in the role of an expert to assess and analyze data, and as a mentor to work closely with your in-house team to build a solution. He is also a seasoned instructor, having taught a wide range of data mining topics for a decade to audiences of up to 400, explaining data mining concepts in language readily understood by a wide range of audiences, including data mining novices, data analysts, statisticians, and business professionals.