and Use Cases
Piyanka Jain, CEO, Aryng.com, Puneet Sharma, Senior Manager, PayPal
Room: Clinton
A Hands-On Introduction
Max Kuhn, Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer
Room: Madison
James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions
Room: Madison
Insights to Impact
Piyanka Jain, CEO, Aryng.com & Puneet Sharma, Senior Manager, PayPal
Room: Clinton
Dean Abbott, President,
Abbott Analytics
Room: Mercury
Keynote: Multiple Case Studies: U.S. DoD, U.S. DHS, SSA
Text Mining: Lessons Learned
John Elder, CEO & Founder, Elder Research, Inc.
Room: Regent
Making Chatter Matter: Monetizing Social Media through Analytics
Colin Shearer, IBM
Room: Regent
Groundtruthing Your Business with Text Analytics
Fiona McNeill, SAS, Text Analytics
Room: Regent
Unstructured Data Analytics in Sybase IQ
David Wiseman, Sybase, An SAP Company
Room: Regent
Case Study: Socialmediatoday.com
Mining for Social Media Buzzwords
Themos Kalafatis, Independent Consultant
Room: Regent
Case Study: Bundle.com
New Insights from “Big Legacy Data”: The Role of Text Analytics at Bundle.com
Alexander Hasha, Bundle.com & Jaime Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Analytics
Room: Regent
Bank On It! Use Publicly Available Social Media Data to Strengthen Customer Relationships and Grow Your Business
Steven Ramirez, Beyond the Arc
Room: Regent
Case Study: Snap-on (tool mfg) & Mitchell1 (auto repair s/w)
Creating a $1 Million Data Source from Free Text
Michael Pooley, Mitchell1
Room: Regent
Predicting Real-World Occurrences via Social Web Analysis
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Topsy Labs
Room: Regent
Case Study: Florida State College at Jacksonville
Who Left and Why?
Using Text Mining to Better Understand College Course Withdrawals
Greg Michalski, Florida State College at Jacksonville
Room: Regent
Keynote
Building Watson – An Overview of the DeepQA Project
David Gondek, IBM Technical Lead, Watson Knowledge Capture and Learning and Healthcare Adaptation, IBM Research
Room: Grand Ballroom
2011 Data Miner Survey Results: Highlights
Karl Rexer, Ph.D., Rexer Analytics
Room: Grand Ballroom
Case Study: A Fortune 500 global technology company
Rules Rule: Inductive Business-Rule Discovery in Text Mining
Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics
Room: Regent
It’s 8:00am: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
Nick Patience, The 451 Group
Room: Regent
Case Study: PayPal
Identifying Customers Who Expressed Intend-to-Churn or Defect
from Large Number of Surveyed Verbatim
Han Sheong Lai, PayPal
Room: Regent
Social Media Analysis for Market Prediction: Collective Mood States
and the Wisdom of Crowds
Johan Bollen, Indiana University
Room: Regent
Session brought to you by NYC Predictive Analytics
Bayesians, Frequentists, and Big Data: Musings on Statistics in the 21st Century
John W. Emerson, Yale University
Room: Gramercy
TAW Master of Ceremonies: Andrew Fast, Elder Research
Text Analytics Hits the Mainstream
John Elder, Elder Research, Inc., Tim Daciuk, IBM & Richard Foley, SAS Text Analyst
Room: Regent
Speaker from: Google
Rich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Text Analysis
Kuzman Ganchev, Google
Room: Regent
Case Study: Accident Fund
Using Text Analytics to Accurately Segment Workers’ Compensation Injuries
Zubair Shams, Accident Fund Insurance Company of America
Room: Regent
Case Study: Wikipedia
The Big Prize: Using Competitions for Advanced Text Analytics
Anthony Goldbloom, Kaggle
Room: Regent
Quantifying Impressions with SAS Text Analytics
Greg Hayworth, Humana Inc.
Room: Regent
Breck Baldwin, LingPipe & Dezhi Yin, Georgia Tech Business School
Room: Regent
Keynote
Every Day Analytics: Making Leading Edge Pervasive
Thomas Davenport, President’s Distinguished Professor, Babson College Author, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Room: Grand Ballroom
Case Study: Citibank
Analyzing and Scoring Customer Problem Descriptions
through Multi-focal Learning
Ramendra Sahoo, Citibank & Hui Xiong, Rutgers Business School
Room: Regent
Case Study: Amdocs
Customer Support and Product Sentiment for a Leading Telecom
Tom Reamy, KAPS Group
Room: Regent
Case Study: Intuit
Babies on Elephants: Hadoop and Text Analytics
Saikat Mukherjee, Intuit Inc.
Room: Regent
The Seven Different types of Text Mining and the Five Questions
that Reveal the Right Approach
Andrew Fast, Elder Research, Inc.
Room: Regent
Hands-On Introduction to Text Analytics with IBM SPSS
Tim Daciuk, Business Development Manager, Advanced Analytics, IBM
Room: Off-Site
John Elder, CEO & Founder,
Elder Research, Inc.
Room: Nassau B
Jeff Mergler, Lead Statistical Applications Trainer, TIBCO Spotfire
Room: Nassau A
*Rooms are subject to change
