Tag: predictive analytics

Analytics Conferences for 2012

NOTE: Early Bird registration for PAW and TAW San Francisco is January 20th – $400 lower than Onsite Price.

CONFERENCE: Predictive Analytics World – San Francisco
March 4-10, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
http://predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012
Discount Code : AJBP12

CONFERENCE: Text Analytics World – San Francisco
March 6-7, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
http://textanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012
Discount Code :AJBP12

VARIOUS ANALYTICS WORKSHOPS:
A plethora of 1-day workshops are held alongside PAW and TAW
For details see: http://pawcon.com/sanfrancisco/2012/analytics_workshops.php

SEMINAR: Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing & Web
March 22-23, 2012 in New York City, NY
July 26-27, 2012 in São Paulo, Brazil
A concentrated training program lead by Eric Siegel.
http://businessprediction.com

CONFERENCE: Predictive Analytics World – Toronto
April 26-27, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario
http://predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/2012
Discount Code :AJBP12

CONFERENCE: Predictive Analytics World – Chicago
June 25-26, 2012 in Chicago, IL
http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/chicago/2012/
Discount Code :AJBP12

MORE ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW Düsseldorf: November 6-7, 2012 – http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.de
PAW London: November 27-28, 2012 – http://www.pawcon.com
PAW Videos: Available on-demand – http://www.pawcon.com/video

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http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012 for Predictive Analytics World SF
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Interview Zach Goldberg, Google Prediction API

Here is an interview with Zach Goldberg, who is the product manager of Google Prediction API, the next generation machine learning analytics-as-an-api service state of the art cloud computing model building browser app.
Ajay- Describe your journey in science and technology from high school to your current job at Google.

Zach- First, thanks so much for the opportunity to do this interview Ajay!  My personal journey started in college where I worked at a startup named Invite Media.   From there I transferred to the Associate Product Manager (APM) program at Google.  The APM program is a two year rotational program.  I did my first year working in display advertising.  After that I rotated to work on the Prediction API.

Ajay- How does the Google Prediction API help an average business analytics customer who is already using enterprise software , servers to generate his business forecasts. How does Google Prediction API fit in or complement other APIs in the Google API suite.

Zach- The Google Prediction API is a cloud based machine learning API.  We offer the ability for anybody to sign up and within a few minutes have their data uploaded to the cloud, a model built and an API to make predictions from anywhere. Traditionally the task of implementing predictive analytics inside an application required a fair amount of domain knowledge; you had to know a fair bit about machine learning to make it work.  With the Google Prediction API you only need to know how to use an online REST API to get started.

You can learn more about how we help businesses by watching our video and going to our project website.

Ajay-  What are the additional use cases of Google Prediction API that you think traditional enterprise software in business analytics ignore, or are not so strong on.  What use cases would you suggest NOT using Google Prediction API for an enterprise.

Zach- We are living in a world that is changing rapidly thanks to technology.  Storing, accessing, and managing information is much easier and more affordable than it was even a few years ago.  That creates exciting opportunities for companies, and we hope the Prediction API will help them derive value from their data.

The Prediction API focuses on providing predictive solutions to two types of problems: regression and classification. Businesses facing problems where there is sufficient data to describe an underlying pattern in either of these two areas can expect to derive value from using the Prediction API.

Ajay- What are your separate incentives to teach about Google APIs  to academic or researchers in universities globally.

Zach- I’d refer you to our university relations page–

Google thrives on academic curiosity. While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also maintain strong relations with leading academic institutions world-wide pursuing research in areas of common interest. As part of our mission to build the most advanced and usable methods for information access, we support university research, technological innovation and the teaching and learning experience through a variety of programs.

Ajay- What is the biggest challenge you face while communicating about Google Prediction API to traditional users of enterprise software.

Zach- Businesses often expect that implementing predictive analytics is going to be very expensive and require a lot of resources.  Many have already begun investing heavily in this area.  Quite often we’re faced with surprise, and even skepticism, when they see the simplicity of the Google Prediction API.  We work really hard to provide a very powerful solution and take care of the complexity of building high quality models behind the scenes so businesses can focus more on building their business and less on machine learning.

 

 

PAW Conferences

Message from Predictive Analytics World-

1. IF YOU ARE IN EUROPE:

PAW London is next week, 30 Nov – 1 Dec, plus a workshop from John Elder on 2 Dec. More info: www.pawcon.com/london

2. IF YOU ARE IN NORTH AMERICA: (Happy Thanksgiving!)

The complete agenda for PAW San Francisco (March 4-10, 2012) has been launched.

Super Early Bird: Savings of $600 over onsite registration until Dec 16

More info: www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Register: www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco/register.php

Featured: PAW & TAW NYC Hotel Reservations Due This Week

Message from PAWCON-

Space is filling up fast at the Hilton New York, host hotel for Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World, next month in New York City. Take advantage of the special room rate negotiated for attendees prior to Friday, September 23rd.

Space is limited so be sure to book your room before it’s too late.

You can reserve your room today by calling             212-586-7000       and reference Data Driven Business Week or online at:
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/N/NYCNHHH-RMSP-20111015/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG#reservation

MORE INFORMATION:

PAW: http://www.pawcon.com/nyc
PAW REGISTRATION: http://www.pawcon.com/newyork/register.php

TAW: http://www.tawgo.com/nyc
TAW REGISTRATION: http://www.tawgo.com/newyork/2011/registration

View the PAW overview video: www.pawcon.com/newyork/2011/video_about_predictive_analytics_world.php 

Congrats to Matt Stromberg- Winner 2 free passes to PAW New York

Here is a big congrats to Matt Stromberg of San Diego for winning 2 free passes to Predictive Analytics World. Each pass can be used for 2 days of the conference, and it is exclusive to that conference alone.

Connect to Matt ?

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3611395 or http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-stromberg/6/a3b/47a

A coincidence- its his birthday today. Happy Birthday Matt and enjoy NY and PAW Con


WINNER- Matt Stromberg

Mgr., Project Management & Business Analytics

Greater San Diego Area 
 

 

Text Analytics World in New York

There is a 15 % discount if you want to register for Text Analytics World next month-

Use Discount Code AJAYNY11

October 19-20, 2011 at The Hilton New York

http://www.textanalyticsworld.com/newyork/2011

Text Analytics World Topics & Case Studies - Oct 19-20 in NYC

Text Analytics World NYC (tawgo.com) is the business-focused event for text analytics professionals,
managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources
to leverage unstructured data for business impact.
Text Analytics World NYC is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and
business thought leaders, including keynote addresses from Thomas Davenport, author of Competing
on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, David Gondek from IBM Research on their Jeopardy-Winning
Watson and DeepQA, and PAW Program Chair Eric Siegel, plus special sessions from industry heavy-
weights Usama Fayyad and John Elder.
CASE STUDIES:

TAW New York City will feature over 25 sessions with case studies from leading enterprises in
automotive, educational, e-commerce, financial services, government, high technology, insurance,
retail, social media, and telecom such as: Accident Fund, Amdocs, Bundle.com, Citibank, Florida State
College, Google, Intuit, MetLife, Mitchell1, PayPal, Snap-on, Socialmediatoday, Topsy, a Fortune 500
global technology company, plus special examples from U.S. government agencies DoD, DHS, and SSA.

HOT TOPICS:

TAW New York City's agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as churn risk detection,
customer service and call centers, decision support, document discovery, document filtering, financial
indicators from social media, fraud detection, government applications, insurance applications,
knowledge discovery, open question-answering, parallelized text analysis, risk profiling, sentiment
analysis, social media applications, survey analysis, topic discovery, and voice of the customer and other
innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

WORKSHOPS: TAW also features a full-day, hands-on text analytics workshop, plus several other pre-
and post-conference workshops in analytics that complement the core conference program. For more
info: www.tawgo.com/newyork/2011/analytics-workshops
For more information: tawgo.com
Download the conference preview:

Conference Preview for TAW New York, October 19-20 2011


View the agenda at-a-glance: textanalyticsworld.com/newyork/2011/agenda

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OTHER ANALYTICS EVENTS:
Predictive Analytics World for Government: Sept 12-13 in DC – www.pawgov.com
Predictive Analytics World New York City: Oct 16-21 – www.pawcon.com/nyc

Text Analytics World New York City: Oct 19-20 – www.tawgo.com/nyc
Predictive Analytics World London: Nov 30-Dec 1 – www.pawcon.com/london
Predictive Analytics World San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Predictive Analytics World Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video
Also has two sessions on R

Sunday, October 16, 2011


Half-day Workshop
Room: Madison

R Bootcamp
Click here for the detailed workshop description

  • Workshop starts at 1:00pm
  • Afternoon Coffee Break at 2:30pm – 3:00pm
  • End of the Workshop: 5:00pm

Instructor: Max Kuhn, Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer

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Monday, October 17, 2011


Full-day Workshop
Room: Madison

R for Predictive Modeling: A Hands-On Introduction
Click here for the detailed workshop description

  • Workshop starts at 9:00am
  • Morning Coffee Break at 10:30am – 11:00am
  • Lunch provided at 12:30 – 1:15pm
  • Afternoon Coffee Break at 2:30pm – 3:00pm
  • End of the Workshop: 4:30pm

Instructor: Max Kuhn, Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer