Robert Nisbet

Robert (Bob) Nisbet, Ph.D.

Instructor

Predictive Analytics Certificate Program

University of California, Irvine

Bob2@rnisbet.com

Dr. Nisbet’s original training was in Plant Ecology. He taught and conducted research in Botany and Ecology for many years in several colleges and universities, most recently as a Researcher in Forest Growth Modeling at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For the last 20 years of his career, Bob was active as a Data Scientist, initially for AT&T, then for NCR Corporation (after the split in 1996). He led the Yield Management analytical team at NCR Corporation which pioneered the design and development of configurable data mining applications for retail sales forecasting, and Churn, Propensity-to-buy, and Customer Acquisition in Telecommunications. He has worked also in Insurance, Banking, Credit, membership organizations (e.g. AAA), and Health Care industries.

He is lead author of the award-winning “Handbook of Statistical Analysis & Data Mining Applications” (Academic Press, 2009, 2017), and a co-author and general editor of the award-winning "Practical Text Mining" (Academic Press, 2012) and “Practical Predictive Analytics and Decisioning Systems in Medicine” (Academic Press, 2015). Currently, his new book on Effective Data Preparation is in press with Cambridge University Press.

In his retirement, he serves as an Instructor in the University of California at Irvine Predictive Analytics Certificate Program, teaching many online and on-campus courses each year in Effective Data Preparation and Predictive Analytics Applications. He serves also as a technical advisor of the Predictive Analytics Certificate Program at UC-Irvine, as a Technical Editor of the Practical Predictive Analytics series of books by Cambridge University Press.