Agenda Overview – PAW for Government –October 17 - 20, 2016
| Day 1, Monday, October 17, 2016 | ||
| 8:00-9:00am | REGISTRATION Room: Independence Foyer |
BREAKFAST Room: Independence Foyer |
| 9:00-9:15am |
WELCOME REMARKS Room: Independence A |
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| 9:15-10:00am |
KEYNOTE 21st Century Data-Driven Environmental Protection Robin Thottungal, Chief Data Scientist @ EPA Room: Independence A |
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| 10:00-10:30am | BREAK Room: Independence Foyer |
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| Track 1 Room: Independence GHI |
Track 2 Room: Independence A |
Mini Course Technical Track Limited seating available Room: Franklin |
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| 10:30-11:20am | ||||
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The Application of Predictive Policing with Police Helicopters Patrick van Vliet, Captain, Business Intelligence Center, The National Police of The Netherlands Floris Korteweg, Analysis Specialist, The National Police of The Netherlands |
Enhancing Search Results Relevance Using Word2Vec Language Models John Herzer, Enterprise Search Project Lead & Pengchu Zhang, Computer Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories | Building a Durable Data Foundation for an Analytical Environment Lewis Broome, Principal Consultant, Data Services Practice Lead !mpact Makers |
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| 11:25am-12:10pm | ||||
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Harnessing the Power of Predictive Analytics for Technology Risk Management Jennifer Dubois, Director, Operations & Technology Risk Analytics, Fannie Mae |
Characteristics for Those Claiming Social Security Benefits Early Dae Park, Assistant Director & Vijay D'Souza, Director, Government Accountability Office (GAO) | Data Munging/Wrangling with R Kenny Darrell, Lead Data Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 12:10-1:00pm | LUNCH Room: Independence Foyer |
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| 1:00-1:45pm | KEYNOTE Implementing Predictive Analytics at CMS: Lessons Learned and Future Directions Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, Deputy Administrator for Program Integrity & Director, Center for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Room: Independence A |
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| 1:45-2:30pm | PLENARY SESSION Doing Space-Age Analytics with Our Hunter-Gatherer Brains Dr. John Elder, CEO & Founder, Elder Research, Inc. Room: Independence A |
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| 2:30-3:00pm | BREAK Room: Independence Foyer |
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| Track 1 Room: Independence GHI |
Track 2 Room: Independence A |
Mini Course Technical Track Limited seating available Room: Franklin |
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| 3:00-3:45pm | ||||
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Understanding Consumer Experience in the Financial Products and Services Marketplace through Complaint Analytics Chad Tompkins, Data Section Chief, Office of Consumer Response, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Vishal Kapur, Prinipal, Deloitte Consulting LLC |
Towards Analytics Maturity in a Regulatory Agency
Matthew Keir, Senior Analyst, Market Analytics, New Zealand Electricity Authority | How Do You Know When Your Model Is Good? Wayne Folta, Data Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 3:50-4:35pm | ||||
| Reducing Flight Delays Through Predictive Analytics
Paola Libraro, Booz Allen Hamilton |
Predicting HIV Transmission Networks Ravi Goyal, Statistician, Mathematica Policy Research | Data Visualization Even Your Boss Can Understand Andrew Lutes, Data Scientist & David Marx, Data Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 4:35-5:45pm | NETWORKING RECEPTION Room: Independence Foyer |
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| Day 2, Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | ||
| 7:30-8:30am | REGISTRATION Room: Independence Foyer |
BREAKFAST Room: Independence Foyer |
| 8:30-8:45am |
WELCOME REMARKS Room: Independence A |
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| 8:45-9:30am |
KEYNOTE Reinventing Refund Rhetoric: Using Predictive Analytics to Fight Fraud Rick Reames, Director, South Carolina Department of Revenue Room: Independence A |
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| 9:30-10:05am | Roadmap to Analytics Excellence in Government Jane Wiseman, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Room: Independence A |
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| 10:05-10:30am | BREAK Room: Independence Foyer |
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| Track 1 Room: Independence GHI |
Track 2 Room: Independence A |
Mini Course Technical Track Limited seating available Room: Franklin |
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| 10:30-11:20am | ||||
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Words that Matter: Application of Text Analytics at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Miguel Castillo, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Antuane Allen, Specialist, Sanametrix |
Infer and Characterize the Transmission Network in An Opioid-driven HIV-1 Outbreak Ryan Weil, Ph.D, Principal Scientist, Lockheed Martin |
Network Analysis for Fraud Detection with Open-Source Tools Ryan McGibony, Data Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 11:25am-12:10pm | ||||
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Building a Highly Functioning Analytics Team Rachel Sullivan, Program Analyst, GSA Office of Human Resources Management |
Expertise Identification with Data Analytics Dann Barnes, SMTS & Gary Huang, Sandia National Laboratories |
Data Visualizations with R and Shiny
Brittany Pugh, Data Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 12:05-1:00pm | LUNCH Room: Independence Foyer |
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| 1:00-1:45pm | KEYNOTE IARPA's Forecasting Tournaments Dr. Jason Matheny, Director, IARPA, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Room: Independence A |
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| 1:45-2:30pm | PLENARY SESSION Tax Fraud Analytics in Maryland -- The Evolution, Challenges, and Rewards Andy Schaufele, Director, Bureau of Revenue Estimates, Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury Room: Independence A |
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| 2:30-3:00pm | BREAK Room: Independence Foyer |
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| Track 1 Room: Independence GHI |
Track 2 Room: Independence A |
Mini Course Technical Track Limited seating available Room: Franklin |
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| 3:00-3:45pm | ||||
| Link Analysis: A New Perspective for the IRS Brock Ramos, Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis, IRS |
Identifying Prescription Drug Fraud and Abuse Jaya Tripathi, Lead Scientist for Data Analytics, MITRE |
Analytics with Apache Spark Dave Saranchak, Data Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 3:50-4:35pm | ||||
| Having a Data Science Mindset Michael Li, CEO, The Data Incubator |
Advanced Analytics to Catch Sophisticated Fraudsters Weishin Wang, Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Fraud Science and Technology, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family services, Office of Inspector General Brien Lorenze, Principal, Deloitte Advisory Dan Olson, CFE, Senior Manager, Deloitte Advisory |
Building Better Models Using Robust Data Mining Methods Tom Donnelly, Systems Engineer, SAS JMP |
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| 4:40-5:00pm | Closing Remarks Room: Independence A |
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| Post-Conference Workshop: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | |
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The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes Dr. John Elder, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| Post-Conference Workshop: Thursday, October 20, 2016 | |
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Making Text Mining Work: Practical Methods and Solutions Dr. Andrew Fast, Elder Research Inc. |
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