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misken at OU
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I’m an Associate Professor in the `Dept. of Decision and Information
Sciences`_ of the `School of Business Administration`_ at `Oakland
University`_ in Rochester, Michigan. *isken[at]oakland[dot]edu*

My teaching and research are in the general area of business analytics.
More details about the classes I teach and the research & development I
do can be found below, at other pages within this site and at my 
other homes on the web:

* **Blog**: `Bits of analytics <https://bitsofanalytics.org/>`_
* **GitHub**: `https://github.com/misken`_
* **ResearchGate**: `https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Isken`_

Here are permalinks to my open access course websites:

- **MIS 4460/5460 - Business Analytics (spreadsheet based)** - `https://ba.misken.org/ <https://ba.misken.org/>`_ 
- **MIS 4470/5470 - Practical Computing for Data Analytics (R, Python)** - `https://pcda.misken.org/ <https://pcda.misken.org/>`_ 
- **MIS 4480/5480 - Advanced Analytics with Python (more Python)** - `https://aap.misken.org/ <https://aap.misken.org/>`_

I’m an engineer. The `Industrial and Operations Engineering`_ department
at the `University of Michigan`_ was my home for a number of years while
I completed my my B.S.E., M.S.E. and PhD. Before joining Oakland
University in 1999, I spent almost ten years as a healthcare operations
and decision support engineer at two large healthcare systems. Most of
my time and energy was spent analyzing processes and developing models,
databases, and various spreadsheet based analytical gizmos to help
analyze healthcare systems and support managerial decision making. This
has resulted in a number of related teaching and research interests that span the
areas of operations research/management science and information systems - we call that "analytics" these days.
I’m particularly interested in designing and developing model and data
based decision support tools for the healthcare industry as well as doing ecological/environmental analytics. I also
do `open source software and curriculum development`_ and `data science blogging`_ 
with a focus on R and Python based tools.

.. _Industrial and Operations Engineering: http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/
.. _University of Michigan: http://www.umich.edu/
.. _Dept. of Decision and Information Sciences: https://www.oakland.edu/business/academic-departments/decision-and-information-sciences/
.. _School of Business Administration: https://www.oakland.edu/business/
.. _Oakland University: http://www.oakland.edu/
.. _https://github.com/misken: https://github.com/misken
.. _https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Isken: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Isken
.. _open source software and curriculum development: https://github.com/misken
.. _data science blogging: https://bitsofanalytics.org/


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