Showing posts with label Analytics. Show all posts
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Friday, November 25, 2011

Leverage Unstructured Data for Maximum Business Impact: Industry Experts Share Insight and Expertise at Text Analytics World NYC, Oct 19-20

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 07, 2011

Learn the leading methods that tap into text analytics by attending Text Analytics World (TAW), produced by Rising Media and Prediction Impact, October 19-20 where Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners share how to capitalize on text analytics to push businesses to the next level.


Can't-miss keynotes include: John F. Elder, CEO and Founder of Elder Research on Text Mining: Lessons Learned, David Gondek, IBM Technical Lead on Building Watson An Overview of the DeepQA Project, and author Thomas Davenport, Presidents Distinguished Professor at Babson College on Everyday Analytics: Making Leading Edge Pervasive.


TAW New York Citys agenda covers more than 25 case study sessions over 2 days, including 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 and fraud detection. TAW speakers also take an in-depth look at government and 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.


TAW attendees will also have the opportunity to hear first-hand how their peers and industry experts use text analytics across a variety of industries, including automotive, education, e-commerce, financial services, government, high technology, insurance, retail, social media, and telecom, such as Google, Accident Fund Insurance of America, Citibank and many more.


Case studies include Mining for Social Media Buzzwords on Socialmediatoday.com, New Insights from Big Legacy Data: The Role of Text Analytics at Bundle.com, Identifying Customers Who Expressed Intend-to-Churn or Defect from Large Number of Surveyed Verbatim at PayPal, Analyzing and Scoring Customer Problem Descriptions through Multi-focal Learning at Citibank, Babies on Elephants: Hadoop and Text Analytics at Intuit, Using Text Analytics to Accurately Segment Workers Compensation Injuries by Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, and others.


Take advantage of the full-day text analytics workshop: Hands-On Introduction to Text Analytics with IBM SPSS (Tim Daciuk, IBM) on Friday, October 21st. This workshop is an introduction to text analytics and provides true hands-on experience, using IBM SPSS Modeler and IBM SPSS Text Analytics software. The course will guide you to actively analyze text, improving the understanding of unstructured data, and using this understanding to enhance data mining models.


In addition to the featured text analytics workshop, eight (8) analytics workshops are offered including:


R Bootcamp: For Newcomers to R,
R for Predictive Modeling: A Hands-On Introduction
Predictive Analytics: Fundamentals and Use Cases
Hands-On Business Analytics: Insights to Impact
Hands-On Predictive Analytics with SAS Enterprise Miner
Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics
Modeling Methods: The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics
Deploying User-Friendly Predictive Analytics

Attend TAW and access the best keynotes, sessions, workshops, exposition, expert panel, networking coffee breaks, reception, birds-of-a-feather lunches, brand-name enterprise leaders, and industry heavyweights in the business.


TAW is sponsored by IBM, SAS, Sybase, AnalyticBridge, KDnuggets, ImprovementandInnovation.com and Toolbox.com.


Text Analytics World will be co-located alongside Predictive Analytics World as a part of Data Driven Business Week, providing reasonably priced cross-registration options for access to a wide scope of leading analytical coverage and case studies.


Register for Text Analytics World New York City.

View the full agenda


Register now and save an additional $ 200 on the two-day conference pass when you register a colleague at the same time.


About Rising Media

Rising Media is a global events producer excelling in Internet and technology-related conferences and exhibitions. Rising Media produced events include Data Driven Business Week, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Conversion Conference, GAUGE, Predictive Analytics World, Text Analytics World, Building Business Capability, Internet Marketing Conference, Social Media Economy Days, Web Effectiveness Conference and Search Marketing Expo in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Australia.


Rising Media events provide cutting-edge, practical knowledge for business professionals to improve their day-to-day effectiveness, driving higher returns for their organizations. Attendees learn from leading experts and share knowledge with each other, as well as interacting with innovative vendors in the space. Each event brings together the best, the brightest and the visionary, creating a forum for insight, energetic exchange and informed purchasing.


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Industry Heavyweights Share How to Increase Customer Value with Predictive Analytics Predictive Analytics World NYC Oct 16-21

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 07, 2011

Discover the impact predictive analytics can deliver. Learn how to forecast customer needs and increase customer value through the expert-led sessions at Predictive Analytics World, produced by Rising Media and Prediction Impact, October 16-21 in New York.


The roster of Predictive Analytics World speakers is the richest and most diverse yet, and features more than 40 sessions across 3 expertise levels of real-life examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from hands-on professionals how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers.


Author Thomas Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor at Babson College, David Gondek, IBM Technical Lead, Watson Knowledge Capture and Learning, IBM Research, and Eric Siegel, Conference Program Chair, will keynote. Davenport will speak on Everyday Analytics: Making Leading Edge Pervasive; Gondek shares Building Watson - An Overview of the DeepQA Project; and Siegel presents Persuasion by the Numbers: Optimize Marketing Influence by Predicting It. But that's only the beginning.


Workshop sessions include Deploying User-Friendly Predictive Analytics (Jeff Mergler, TIBCO Spotfire), Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics (James Taylor, Decision Management Solutions), Hands-On Business Analytics: Insights to Impact and Predictive Analytics: Fundamentals and Use Cases (Piyanka Jain & Puneet Sharma, PayPal), Modeling Methods: The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics (John Elder, Ph.D., Elder Research), Hands-On Text Analytics with IBM (Tim Daciuk, IBM), Hands-On Predictive Analytics with SAS Enterprise Miner (Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics), R Bootcamp: For Newcomers to R and R for Predictive Modeling: A Hands-On Introduction (Max Kuhn, Pfizer).


Organizations are looking to predict how customers will respond in the future, and realizing their historical data is an untapped resource. Beyond standard business reports and sales forecasts, predictive analytics offers actionable predictions for each customer. These predictions deliver more relevant content to each customer, improving response rates, click rates, buying behavior, retention and overall profit. For online applications such as e-marketing and customer care recommendations, predictive analytics acts in real-time, dynamically selecting the ad, web content or cross-sell product each visitor is most likely to click on or respond to, according to that visitor's profile.


Register now for Predictive Analytics World, October 16-21 at the Hilton New York.


View the full agenda and see all the great sessions available.


Predictive Analytics World is part of Data Driven Business Week, which includes the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Text Analytics World, Conversion Conference, GAUGE, and the Internet Marketing Conference.


Predictive Analytics World is sponsored by IBM, SAS, Deloitte, Sybase, Teradata, StatSoft, Vertica, FICO, Mu Sigma, Oracle, Tibco, Salford Systems, InfoCentricity, Kxen, Yottamine, Zementis, KDNuggets, Informs, AnalyticBridge, Customer Think, Improvement and Innovation.com, Predictive Analytics.org, Toolbox.com, TOPSEOs and Visibility.


About Rising Media

Rising Media is a global events producer excelling in Internet and technology-related conferences and exhibitions. Rising Media produced events include Data Driven Business Week, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Conversion Conference, GAUGE, Predictive Analytics World, Text Analytics World, Building Business Capability, Internet Marketing Conference, Social Media Economy Days, Web Effectiveness Conference and Search Marketing Expo in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Australia.


Rising Media events provide cutting-edge, practical knowledge for business professionals to improve their day-to-day effectiveness, driving higher returns for their organizations. Attendees learn from leading experts and share knowledge with each other, as well as interacting with innovative vendors in the space. Each event brings together the best, the brightest and the visionary, creating a forum for insight, energetic exchange and informed purchasing.


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