Analytical Worlds Blog – Predictive Analytics and Text Analytics – by Eric Siegel, Ph.D.

Congressman Darrell Issa, R-California and Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has joined the powerful line-up of keynotes and featured speakers at Predictive Analytics World for Government with his keynote: “Fighting Waste, Fraud and Abuse with DATA" 

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Download the Conference Preview for Text Analytics World New York City 2 Days of Content and over 25 sessions With over 25 case study sessions across 2 days, Text Analytics World is the industry's must-attend event for text analytics professionals – October 19-20, 2011 at the Hilton New York in New York City. Download the conference preview for an in-depth look at TAW's all-star speaker line up and array of case studies. Text Analytics World will be co-located alongside Predictive Analytics World, as a part of Data Driven Business Week, providing cross-registration options for access to a wide scope of leading analytical coverage and case studies. Here's a sneak peak at some of the speakers featured at TAW NYC: Keynote: Multiple Case Studies: U.S. DoD, U.S. DHS, SSA- Text Mining: Lessons Learned John F. Elder IV Ph.D., Chief Scientist,  Elder Research, Inc. Identifying Customers Who Expressed Intend-to-Churn or Defect from Large Number of Surveyed Verbatim Han Sheong Lai Director of Operational Excellence & VOC, PayPal Fighting Fraud with Text Mining at MetLife Auto & Home David McMichael Assistant Vice President, MetLife Auto & Home Analyzing and Scoring Customer Problem Descriptions through Multi-focal Learning Ramendra Sahoo  Director & Senior Vice President of Analytics, Citibank Hui Xiong Associate Professor, Rutgers Business School Babies on Elephants: Hadoop and Text Analytics Saikat Mukherjee Ph.D., Senior Data Scientist, Intuit Inc. New Insights from "Big Legacy Data": The Role of Text Analytics at Bundle.com Alexander Hasha Lead Data Scientist, Bundle.com Jaime Fitzgerald Founder & President,Fitzgerald Analytics Creating a $1 Million Data Source from Free Text Michael Pooley President & General Manager, Mitchell1 New Workshop: Hands-On Introduction to Text Analytics with IBM SPSS – Friday October 21st TAW attendees will have the opportunity to hear first-hand how their peers and industry experts employ text analytics and what kind of business impact it delivers across a variety of industries – including automobile, educational, e-commerce, financial services, government, high technology, insurance, retail, social media, and telecom. View Text Analytics World NYC Agenda and Session Details Register Now and realize $200 in savings. Additional savings of $200 on the two-day conference pass when you register a colleague at the same time.

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Predictive Analytics World NYC Highlights

Download the conference preview guide for an 
in-depth look at the PAW's all-star speaker line up and array of case studies.

With over 40 case study sessions across 3 tracks, Predictive Analytics World is the industry's must-attend event for analytics professionals – October 16-21, 2011 at the Hilton New York in New York City.

9 full-day workshops: intro, methods, hands-on, text, & more

Here's a sneak peak at some of the case studies featured at PAW NYC:

		Putting Predictive Analytics into Context: The Analytics Value Chain
	Piyanka Jain Head of NA Business Analytics,  PayPal		Puneet Sharma Senior Manager PayPal

	Data Science at LinkedIn: Iterative, Big Data Analytics and You
	Manu Sharma Principal Research Scientist,  LinkedIn

	They Keep Coming Back-Predicting Hospital Readmissions
	Fred Grunwald Vice President of Analytics New Directions Behavioral Health

	Predictive Analytics in Customer Digital Payments
	Ramendra Sahoo  Senior Vice President of Analytics Citibank

	Using Segmentation and Predictive Analytics to Reduce Customer Attrition
	David Liebskind Retail Analytics Leader GE Capital

	Search and Social: Intelligent Matching at Match.com
	Amarnath Thombre Vice President of Strategy & Analytics Match.com

	True-Lift Modeling: Mining for the Most Truly Responsive Customers & Prospects
	Jane Zheng Principal Decision Scientist Fidelity

Case Studies-  Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from the horse's mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers. Click here to view the agenda at-a-glance orDownload the PAW Conference Preview Guide

Register Now and realize $200 in savings. Additional savings of $200 on the two-day conference pass when you register a colleague at the same time.

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Nine Analytics Workshops in NYC

Predictive Analytics World NYC announces full day workshops – October 16-21 – amounting to six consecutive days of content. These workshops deliver top notch analytical and business expertise across the hottest topics.

Register now for one or more workshops, offered just before and after PAW's conference program (October 16-21):

Sunday, October 16			Monday, October 17
R Bootcamp:  For Newcomers to R Half-day: 1:00pm – 5:00pm			R for Predictive Modeling: A Hands-On Introduction Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Launch your tenure as a hands-on user of R, the well-known open-source platform for data analysis.			Gain experience driving R for predictive modeling across real examples and data sets. Survey the pertinent modeling packages.
	Max Kuhn Director, Nonclinical Statistics Pfizer			Max Kuhn Director, Nonclinical Statistics Pfizer
Monday, October 17			Tuesday, October 18
Predictive Analytics: Fundamentals and Use Cases Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm			Hands-On Business Analytics: Insights to Impact Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Prepares newcomers to attend PAW's 2-day conference program by revealing the power of predictive analytics through use cases.			Establishing objectives for business analytics, executing on core analysis, deriving insights and making an impact.
	Piyanka Jain Senior Manager PayPal			Piyanka Jain Senior Manager PayPal
	Puneet Sharma Senior Manager PayPal			Puneet Sharma Senior Manager PayPal
Tuesday, October 18			Tuesday, October 18
Hands-On Predictive Analytics  with SAS Enterprise Miner Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm			Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Gain experience driving an industry-leading tool, applying the industry standard data mining process.			The principles of Decision Management, its application to critical business processes, and the appropriate use of available technology.
	Dean Abbott President Abbott Analytics	Sponsored By:		James Taylor CEO Decision Management Solutions
Friday, October 21			Friday, October 21
The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm			Deploying User-Friendly Predictive Analytics Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm
The key inner workings of leading algorithms, case studies demonstrating their performance and comparison of merits.			Gain hands-on experience building user-friendly predictive applications that quickly operationalize models developed in R.
	John Elder, Ph.D. CEO and Founder Elder Research			Jeff Mergler Lead Stat. App. Trainer TIBCO Spotfire	Sponsored By:
Friday, October 21
Hands-On Introduction to Text Analytics with IBM SPSS Full-day: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Gain true hands-on experience with text analytics using industry-leading software; enhance data mining models with unstructured data.
	Tim Daciuk Business Dev. Mnger., Advanced Analytics, IBM	Sponsored by

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Joint Sessions at PAW and TAW

Announcing four joint text/predictive sessions available to both Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World attendees, October 19-20 in NYC.

Featured Session:
Social Media Analysis for Market Prediction

Johan Bollen Associate Professor Indiana University

In this session you will learn how Professor Bollen's team has analyzed
large – scale Twitter data to yield accurate measurements of the public's mood state which in turn have been shown to contain predictive information with regards to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In addition you will learn how the team performed an analysis of longitudinal changes in individual user sentiment over hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to study the effects of social networking relations to evolving user mood states.

Click here for a complete, detailed session description

Here are three other joint sessions shared between Text Analytics World and Predictive Analytics World, New York City, Oct 19-20:

	Keynote: Every Day Analytics: Making Leading Edge Commonplace Thomas Davenport President's Distinguished Prof, Babson College Author, Competing on Analytics
	Keynote: Building Watson – An Overview of the DeepQA Project David A. Ferrucci IBM Fellow & Watson Principal Investigator IBM Research
	Session: Identifying Customers Who Expressed Intend-to-Churn or Defect from Large Number of Surveyed Verbatim Han Sheong Lai Director of Operational Excellence & VOC PayPal

View Text Analytics World NYC Agenda and Session Details

And that's just the tip of the iceberg – check out all these other TAW topics, case studies and speakers:

• Topics 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.
• Case studies from Accident Fund, Amdocs, Bundle, Citibank, FL State College, Google, Intuit,  MetLife, Mitchell1 (auto repair s/w), PayPal, Snap-on (tool mfg), Socialmediatoday.com, A Fortune 500 global technology company, plus special examples from U.S. government agencies DoD, DHS, SSA
• Experts and practitioners such as Dean Abbott, President, Abbott Analytics, Breck Baldwin, President, LingPipe, John Elder, Ph. D., Chief Scientist, Elder Research, Inc., Andrew Fast, Senior Scientist & Director of Research, Elder Research, Inc., Jaime Fitzgerald, Founder & President, Fitzgerald Analytics, Alexander Hasha, Lead Data Scientist, Bundle.com, Piyanka Jain, Head of NA Business Analytics, PayPal, Themos Kalafatis, Independent Consultant, Max Kuhn, Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer, David McMichael, Assistant Vice President, MetLife Auto & Home, Jeff Mergler, Lead Statistical Applications Trainer, TIBCO Spotfire, Greg Michalski, Director of Student Analytics & Research, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Saikat Mukherjee, Ph.D., Senior Data Scientist, Intuit Inc., Nick Patience, Research Director of Information Management,The 451 Group, Michael Pooley, President & General Manager,Mitchell1, Tom Reamy, Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group, Ramendra Sahoo, Director & Senior Vice President of Analytics,Citibank, Zubair Shams, Director of Product Development, Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, Puneet Sharma, Senior Manager, PayPal, James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions, Hui Xiong, Associate Professor, Rutgers Business School, Dezhi Yin, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech Business School

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Predictive Analytics World London – Second conference track added; register by 15th July to make big savings

With the growing importance of predictive analytics across so many industries, Predictive Analytics World London, 30th November to 1st December, has added a second track on Wednesday afternoon in order to provide even more relevant case studies from a wider range of industries.

See the online agenda at a glance here

Register by 15th July to make savings of up to £400 on the price of a two day pass with the super early bird pricing. With the addition of the second track it is now literally impossible for one person to take in all the content on offer so bring along a colleague and combine the super early bird price with the "Bring the team" offer, saving you an additional £100 on the price of every additional team member registered.

Hot topics and advanced methods via case studies

PAW focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear precisely how large companies and organisations deploy predictive modeling from the very people who were involved in the projects. See a list of case studies and hot topics below:

Network with 2000 decision makers

Running for the first time in the UK as part of Data Driven Business Week, Predictive Analytics World London will be one of three conferences (Predictive Analytics World, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and Conversion Conference) all designed to empower business to strategise and optimise using data analytics. The event is also being co-located with ECMOD, Europe's largest and most influential forum for catalogue, home shopping and multi-channel businesses, now running in its 21st year. Based on past attendances the total audience for DDBW and ECMOD will be over 2000, providing excellent networking opportunities for all attendees.

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