Sponsored: PAW Boston keynotes, agenda and workshops announced

 

BOSTON

Seaport World Trade Center

Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2015

Keynote Speakers:

DEAN ABBOTT

Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist of SmarterHQ
DR. PATRICK SURRY

Chief Data Scientist

Hopper
CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS

Chief Data Scientist

The New York Times

Co-located Events:

Predictive Analytics World for Business announces Boston program

Predictive Analytics World (PAW) for B usiness covers a wide range of business applications for predictive analytics across industry sectors including marketing, credit scoring, insurance, fraud detection, web optimization, and much more.

What’s on the Agenda?

  • 30+ sessions focused on predictive analytics in the industries of business, insurance, retail, workforce, education and more
  • 30+ speakers from Elder Research, Inc., Merkle Inc., EMC, Talent Analytics, Corp., Verizon, Metlife, State Street Corp.
  • 20+ case studies from American Savings Bank, Telenor, Johnson Controls, Halliburton, Travelers, Fidelity, Paychex
  • 7 training workshops diving into big data, R, predictive modeling, hands-on methods, & supercharging prediction
  • 3 tracks to focus your learning: All Levels, Expert/Practitioner, Financial Services
  • Networking during at the exhibit hall, reception, breaks

View the Agenda

Why Attend?
Improve your predictive analytics proficiency to achieve:

  • Bigger wins – Strengthen the impact of predictive analytics deployment
  • Broader capabilities – Establish new opportunities in data science
  • Big data – Leverage bigger data for prediction and drive bigger value

Super Early Bird Rates
Register Here
Sign up by June 26th to keep up to $650 in your pocket with super early bird rates. Save an additional $200 with each additional attendee registering from the same company at the same time.

 

Decisionstats interviews John Sall, co-founder SAS for StatisticsViews.com

We just interviewed the legendary John Sall, co -founder of SAS Institute. What can I say? Mr Sall is awesome and shows us why here

http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/8180721/Writing-code-helps-me-to-understand-the-development-process-so-that-I-can-make-b.html

6. Do you still write code? Describe what keeps you motivated in coding.

I do still write code. It’s something I enjoy, and I’m good at it. I like to express myself in code. Writing code helps me to understand the development process so that I can make better judgments about it.

 

 

Speaking at IIMNetwork

I am speaking at this event next Sunday

There is a discount code

Register with discount code of 20% off on INR 3000 Pass

DISCOUNT CODE : INWKPTR20
(limited to 50 registrations only)

 

Delhi – 26 Jul 2015

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The Amazing Watson makes Data Science so elementary

I got the email from IBM saying try out Watson, yada yada yada. I was not so sure what to expect. So i uploaded the diamonds dataset from the flagbearer ggplot2 package in R.

Simple benchmark- can IBM Watson data viz beat the best data viz package (ggplot2) in the best statistical language (R)

To my chagrin and humility- here are the results

Interface is awesome

Watson actually asks questions which an experienced Data Scientist would ask

The default data visualization is actually superior but the tabs for customizing appearance needs some work.

STEP 1

Just uploaded the dataset and these were some of the questions asked by Watson to me.

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Screenshot from 2015-07-16 00:25:07Step 2

Look at how Watson answers one of these questions

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Screenshot from 2015-07-16 00:32:49Step 3

I added human input(me) to try and customize it

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Ajay Ohri Interview by BigStep

I was recently interviewed by Bigstep as part of their Expert Interview program. Click here to read the interview and let me know what you think!

http://blog.bigstep.com/big-data-experts-interviews/expert-interview-with-ajay-ohri-on-the-importance-of-big-data/

Accelerating R: RStudio and the new R Consortium

jjallaire's avatarRStudio Blog

To paraphrase Yogi Berra, “Predicting is hard, especially about the future”. In 1993, when Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman first started working on R, who would have predicted that it would be used by millions in a world that increasingly rewards data literacy? It’s impossible to know where R will go in the next 20 years, but at RStudio we’re working hard to make sure the future is bright.

Today, we’re excited to announce our participation in the R Consortium, a new 501(c)6 nonprofit organization. The R Consortium is a collaboration between the R Foundation, RStudio, Microsoft, TIBCO, Google, Oracle, HP and others. It’s chartered to fund and inspire ideas that will enable R to become an even better platform for science, research, and industry. The R Consortium complements the R Foundation by providing a convenient funding vehicle for the many commercial beneficiaries of R to give back to the community, and…

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