Knowledge management is a process that converts data into explicit knowledge that helps them make decisions. To transform the data into knowledge, there are a number of techniques to help discover patterns of behavior, relationships, rules, associations and even useful exceptions of reality analyzed. These techniques constitute a discipline called Data Mining encompassing various techniques, tools and research results used to extract useful information from large databases.

Data mining has applications in many different domains (business, government, hospitals) for different purposes (classification, prediction). Have for all those interested in exploiting their databases, whatever their nature, qualitative, quantitative even textual.

Survey Analysis

The team has done research on global analysis methodology of the surveys. Besides the classical perspective, we have studied the structure of the information from the global point of view by identifying profiles of responses. The analysis of free-response questions using textual statistical methods is also included.