PAW/TAW – The Most Important Influencers in Analytics

The Most Important Influencers in Analytics

Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World – next month in
NYC – deliver sessions and workshops from the most influential industry leaders in the fields of predictive analytics and text analytics including:

John Elder CEO & Founder Elder Research, Inc.

John has headed the largest analytics services firm in North America for 16 years, and is a top thought leader, practitioner, and author in data mining. He is the General Chair of PAW-Government, and has served five years on a panel appointed by the President to guide technology for National Security. View full bio here.

PAW special plenary session: Data Mining Lessons Learned from Applied Projects with Anheuser-Busch, SSA, Netflix

TAW Keynote: Text Mining: Lessons Learned

Post-conference workshop: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes. We are pleased to announce the return of this hugely popular workshop – sign up now before it sells out.

Thomas Davenport President’s Distinguished Professor Babson College Author, Competing on Analytics PAW/TAW Joint Keynote: Every Day Analytics: Making Leading Edge Pervasive

David C. Gondek IBM Technical Lead, Watson IBM Research PAW/TAW Joint Keynote: Building Watson – An Overview of the DeepQA Project

Dean Abbott President, Abbott Analytics TAW Session: Rules Rule: Inductive Business-Rule Discovery in Text Mining PAW Session: Turning Member Satisfaction Surveys into an Actionable Narrative Pre-conference workshop: Hands-On Predictive Analytics with SAS Enterprise Miner

Piyanka Jain Head of NA Business Analytics, PayPal PAW Session: Putting Predictive Analytics into Context: The Analytics Value Chain Pre-conference workshop: Predictive Analytics: Fundamentals and Use Cases Pre-conference workshop: Hands-On Business Analytics: Insights to Impact

Puneet Sharma Senior Manager, PayPal PAW Session: Putting Predictive Analytics into Context: The Analytics Value Chain Pre-conference workshop: Predictive Analytics: Fundamentals and Use Cases Pre-conference workshop: Hands-On Business Analytics: Insights to Impact

James Taylor CEO Decision Management Solutions PAW Session: Next Generation Claims Systems Pre-conference workshop: Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Check out these sessions:

• Eric Siegel – PAW keynote: Optimize Marketing Influence by Predicting It
• Anthony Goldbloom – TAW: Competitions for Advanced Text Analytics – and PAW: Competitions and the $3 Million Health Prize
• Indiana U.’s Johan Bollen – Joint PAW/TAW session: Predicting the Stock Market with Twitter
• LinkedIn’s Manu Sharma – PAW: Data Science at LinkedIn
• Google’s Kuzman Ganchev – TAW: Rich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Text Analysis
• Accident Fund’s Zubair Shams – TAW: Text Analytics to Segment Workers’ Comp Injuries
• IBM’s Colin Shearer – Joint PAW/TAW session: The Analytical Revolution
• SAS’ John Sall – PAW: Speeding Up Exploration

… and many more – see the PAW agenda overview and TAW agenda overview.

Read more about PAW:

The FAQs on PAW & TAW NYC
PAW London Keynotes & Case Studies – Nov 30-Dec 1 in London
PAW/TAW 2012 SF Call-for-Speakers – March 2012 in SF
Reasons to Attend Predictive Analytics World – View video now
Download the PAW NYC Conference Preview Guide

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