Michael Berry

Michael Berry is a founder of Data Miners, Michael is no longer involved in its day-to-day activities. He does continue to contibute to the blog.

Together with his colleague, Gordon Linoff, Michael Berry is author of some of the most widely read and respected books on data mining. These best sellers in the field have been translated into many languages. Michael is an active practitioner of data mining. His books reflect many years of practical, hands-on experience down in the data mines.

A data mining educator as well as a consultant, Michael has taught marketing analytics in the MBA program at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. He is also in demand as a keynote speaker and seminar leader in the area of data mining generally and the application of data mining to customer relationship management in particular.

Prior to founding Data Miners in December, 1997, Michael spent 8 years at Thinking Machines Corporation. There he specialized in the application of massively parallel supercomputing techniques to business and marketing applications, including one of the largest database marketing systems of the time. He is currently Director of Analytics at Tripadvisor for Business, the B2B side of Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel website.