Analytics Workshops
Predictive Analytics World, May 14-18, 2017 in San Francisco
Workshops for All Levels
Workshops at the Expert/Practitioner Level
Sunday, May 14
Uplift Models:
Optimizing the Impact of Your Marketing
Full-day: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- This workshop demonstrates how to build Net Lift Models that optimize the incremental impact of marketing campaigns, covering the pros and cons of various core analytical approaches.
Kim Larsen
Director of Client Algorithms
Stitch Fix
Sunday, May 14
Big Data: Proven Methods You
Need to Extract Big Value
Full-day: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- This one day workshop reviews major big data success stories that have transformed businesses and created new markets.
Marc Smith
Chief Social Scientist
Connected Action Consulting Group
Monday, May 15
Hadoop for Predictive Analytics:
Hands-On Lab
Full-day: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Gain the power to extract signals from big data on your own, without relying on data engineers and Hadoop specialists.
James Casaletto
Senior Solutions Architect
MapR Technologies
Monday, May 15
Supercharging Prediction:
Hands-On with Ensemble Models
Full-day: 8:30am - 4:30pm
- This workshop dives into the key ensemble approaches including Bagging, Random Forests, and Stochastic Gradient Boosting.
Dean Abbott
President
Abbott Analytics, Inc.
Monday, May 15
R Bootcamp:
For Newcomers to R
Two and a half hour morning workshop: 9:00-11:30am
- This 2.5 hour workshop launches your tenure as a user of R, the well-known open-source platform for data analysis.
Max KuhnDirector, Nonclinical Statistics
Pfizer
Monday, May 15
R for Predictive Modeling:
A Hands-On Introduction
Full-day: 12:00 - 7:30pm
- Gain experience driving R for predictive modeling across real examples and data sets. Survey the pertinent modeling packages.
Max KuhnDirector, Nonclinical Statistics
Pfizer
Thursday, May 18
Advanced Methods:
Data Preparation and Modeling Techniques
Full-day: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Dive in hands-on employing the key predictive analytics algorithms, and gain experience with leading software.
Dean Abbott
President
Abbott Analytics
Thursday, May 18
Modeling Methods: The Best and
the Worst of Predictive Analytics
Full-day: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- The key inner workings of leading algorithms, case studies demonstrating their performance and comparison of merits.
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Dr. John ElderCEO and Founder
Elder Research, Inc.
On-Demand
Predictive Analytics Applied –
An Online Introduction
Online 5 ½-hour training program – on demand
- New to predictive analytics? Take this online course instructed by the chair of PAW to ramp up before the conference. On-demand access at any time.
Eric Siegel Ph.D.
Conference Chair
Predictive Analytics World
