Business Analytics is an area with very wide applications. It deals with splicing and harnessing "information" coming from different sources(sample surveys, published public and private documents, social networks, web hosting sites, etc.) and in different forms (hard data as numbers, text, voice, videos, etc.).
Harnessing that information to discover useful patterns requires some of the latest statistical tools, such as data mining, text mining etc. Once the pattern is discovered it can guide us to develop business strategies.
This site is managed by Professor Krishna T. Kumar. Prof Kumar had more than 40 years of experience in the following fields: Applied Statistics, Econometrics, General Economics, Managerial Economics and Quantitative Analysis for Business and Public Policy, Business Data Analysis, and Business Analytics. This site is open for collaborative professional work in the field of business analytics. Those who are interested in such collaboration in teaching, research, and consultancy in the field of Business Analytics may contact Prof Kumar at kkumar@rockvilleanalytics.com
His experience covers teaching, research, and consultancy in all the areas listed above.
Prof Kumar has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics at George Washington University (2012-2015). Earlier he held faculty positions (1966-1978) at Florida State University and Florida Atlantic University. He also had nearly three years of consultancy experience as a Senior Scientist at Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA. In 1999-2000 he was a Visiting Professor in the School of Management, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. While in India he was a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, and Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore.
More information about his experience can be obtained by looking at his resume.
Professor Kumar had written a book on this subject (along with two other authors) and published by John Wiley and Sons in 2011.
Those who are interested in seeing this book can visit the page:
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Econometrics-Hengqing-Tong/dp/0470681772
Any comments on the book or the computer software are welcome. Please send your comments to kkumar@rockvilleanalytics.com
For a Review of this book see the Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2014. or Go to the link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jori.12029/abstract
Prof Kumar is currently teaching a course based on this book. The details regarding the course can be seen under Econometrics (Business Analytics).
Prof Kumar was the Managing Director of a Business Analytics Company, Samkhya Analytica (India) Pvt. Ltd. in Bengaluru, India during 2007-2010. Rockville Analytics hopes to continue that work done in India in the new US setting here in Rockville, Maryland.
Samkhya Analytica was inaugurated at an International Conference on Business Analytics organized by CR Rao Advanced Institute for Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Hyderabad in December 2008. Professor C.R. Rao, a living legend in statistics and US Science Laureate, inaugurated Samkhya Analytica.
Some of the Business Analytics Case Studies undertaken by Prof Kumar and his colleagues through Samkhya Analytica (India) Pvt. Ltd. are shown under Projects Undertaken.
The consultancy projects that Prof. Kumar had undertaken are shown under Consultancy Projects.
Anyone interested in consulting him and or his collaborators can contact him at: tkkumar@gmail.com