{"id":218711,"date":"2026-05-22T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:55:14","slug":"sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"SIU\u2019s Pontikes Center is unique analytics and AI training ground helping students, industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/052226-sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry.php\">SIU\u2019s Pontikes Center is unique analytics and AI training ground helping students, industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/052226-sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry.php\">https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/052226-sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 11:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.siu.edu\">news.siu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pontikes Center for Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at Southern Illinois University Carbondale immerses students in hands-on experiences in research, AI, and analytics to produce &#8220;translators&#8221; who can analyze data for business decisions.  <\/li>\n<li>The center has a diverse advisory board offering internships, mentoring students, and helping with real-world projects to bridge academics and industry needs.  <\/li>\n<li>Students work on a variety of projects that tackle real-world issues, such as improving 911 call response times and analyzing childhood cancer treatment outcomes.  <\/li>\n<li>The center emphasizes the importance of data analytics skills in combination with business knowledge, helping students become more employable and competitive.  <\/li>\n<li>The Pontikes Center started in 1989 and has grown to offer various degrees and certificates in business analytics, focusing now on applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in analytics.<\/li>\n<li>New plans are underway to create a dedicated Saluki Hub to facilitate integrated research and teaching in analytics and AI among students and faculty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIU\u2019s Pontikes Center is unique analytics and AI training ground helping students, industry https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/052226-sius-pontikes-center-is-unique-analytics-and-ai-training-ground-helping-students-industry.php Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/_assets\/images\/2026\/05\/jim-nelson-classroompic-sm.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218713,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218711\/revisions\/218713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}