Keith McCormick

Keith McCormick is an independent data mining consultant, trainer, author, and conference speaker. He has a wealth of consulting experience in statistics, predictive analytics, and data mining. For many years, he has worked in the SPSS community, first as an External Trainer and Consultant for SPSS Inc., and then in a similar role with IBM. He possesses a BS in Computer Science and Psychology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is an expert in IBM's SPSS software suite including IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM SPSS Modeler, AMOS, and Text Mining. He is active in statistics groups online and blogs at KeithMcCormick.com. More recently he has been developing courses at Lynda.com to complement his authoring of books. He enjoys hiking in out of the way places, finding unusual souvenirs while traveling overseas, exotic foods, and old books.