AnalyticBridge

Social Network For Analytic Professionals

Analyticbridge Newsletter - January 2012

Our newsletter has four sections, separated by horizontal lines: Announcements, Message From The Editor, Best Blogs, and Job Ads.

1. Announcements

Join the new Lavastorm Analytics Community Group - Lavastorm is building its Analytics Community Group, and would like to invite you to join us on LinkedIn. Our membership is comprised of analytic experts, analytic professionals, executives, students and customers of Lavastorm products and others interested in the topics around analytics. There is still time to participate in our 2012 analytic trend predictions.
FICO Insurance Analytics and Modeling Webinar Series - FICO invites you to join us for the Insurance Analytics & Modeling Webinar Series. This learning program is focused on applying the advanced predictive analytic techniques used by leading insurers worldwide. Register now for any or all of the webinars in the series. These free 60-minute webinars are designed to spotlight the latest trends and best practices you need to minimize risk and seize opportunities for growth.
The Role of Modeling in Insurance Decisions - February 8, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Register Now
Webinar - “Top Trends in Business Analytics: Predictive Analytics for Marketing & Sales” - Free live webinar Feb 14th, 2pm EST. There is a shift toward business analysts as users and consumers of predictive analytics products and services. Recently, Hurwitz & Associates conducted research in the area of advanced analytics and a number of trends emerged in the predictive analytics market. Join this webinar led by Fern Halper of Hurwitz & Associates to learn:
- Drivers and benefits of predictive analytics for the business
- Use cases for sales and marketing analytics
- Shifts in user adoption and ease of use
- Trends to consuming predictive analytics in the Cloud
View event details and register for this Free Webinar
Predictive Analytics Innovation, San Diego, February 2012 - Our partners at the IE Group would like to invite you to the Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit in San Diego on February 23 & 24. This event brings together some of the most influential analytics professionals to discuss developments in the field and share case studies and stories of successes and challenges. For more information: http://analytics.theiegroup.com/pa-sandiego. Speakers at the summit include:
- Senior Vice President, Office Max
- Divisional Vice President, Loyalty, Walgreens
- Vice President, Global Retail Sales, Coca-Cola
- Director, Market Research, Microsoft
- Senior Director, Product Management, Search Science, eBay
In order to create an intimate setting for informed discussion, all IE Group summits are by invitation only. If you are interested in securing a pass contact Rose at rpalmer@theiegroup.com.
2012 BayesiaLab Training Schedule- We just concluded our final training for the year 2011 in Atlanta with record attendance. For 2012, the following 3-day training seminars are currently planned:
- February 13-15, Orlando, FL (right before the ASA Conference on Statistical Practice)
- April 18-20, Orange County, CA (right after the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & O.R.)
- July 10-12, Toronto, Canada
- October, San Jose, CA (to be held in conjunction with the 2012 Data Mining Camp)
For details, visit click here.
Rapid-I - Founder of open source data mining software Rapid|Miner, Rapid-I provides software, solutions, and services in the fields of predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining. The company concentrates on automatic intelligent analyses on a large-scale base, i.e. for large amounts of structured data like database systems and unstructured data like texts. The open-source data mining specialist Rapid-I enables other companies to use leading-edge technologies for data mining and business intelligence. Click here for details.
Webinars and courses from The Modeling Agency
- Webinar - “Data Mining: Failure to Launch” ( Free Event: Feb 15, 2012 ) – Learn how to get Predictive Analytics off the ground and into orbit. In this vendor-neutral presentation, participants will learn why more than half of all data mining projects fail or fall short; how to avoid common pitfalls; valuable tips and tricks to enhance predictive modeling performance; why data mining is within their grasp; and how to get started. View event details and register for this Free Webinar
- Courses – Predictive Analytics & Data Mining: Model Development & Strategic Implementation - If you want to learn what really works in predictive modeling and why you should target 1000% ROI from your data mining initiatives, dive straight into The Modeling Agency's Predictive Analytics & Data Mining course series. The series is designed to get you up to speed faster and more effectively than any other program available. Highly seasoned consultants convey a comprehensive and highly pragmatic view of data mining from two distinctly different yet highly complementary orientations. Since The Modeling Agency is not a tools vendor, participants enjoy a balanced, broad, and non-promotional perspective of predictive analytics. View full course details and secure registration
StatSoft announces the release of their new YouTube video series on Text Mining. The series will provide hands-on tutorials of text mining applications. StatSoft will release a new video every week. Subscribers to the StatSoft YouTube channel will have quick and easy access to the videos as soon as they become available. Users can also register to receive emails every time a new video is released.
STATISTICA Text Miner is an optional extension of STATISTICA Data Miner, ideal for translating unstructured text data into meaningful, valuable nuggets of decision-making "gold." The Text Miner application can be used to analyze the contents of web pages, analyze large document repositories and include unstructured notes in predictive data mining projects. For more information, click here
Predictive Analytics World, March 4-10, 2012 in San Francisco - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco
Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco is the must attend event for analytics professionals looking to hear from the horse’s mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and the business impact it delivers. Want to learn more?
Register & Save: Receive $150 off your Two Day Pass registration fee when using discount code: ABR150.
The inaugural Social Media Analytics Summit (San Francisco, April 17-18) is the first ever two-day business conference with a complete focus on social media analytics. Social media analytics enhances customer service, improves brand and reputation management, and measures overall social media success for businesses. Our proven two-day format of presentations, case studies, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and networking opportunities will provide you with all of the information and connections that you need to accurately measure the impact and ROI of your social media initiatives. Register with discount code ABRIDGESMA to save $150!.
Text Analytics Summit Europe, April 23-24, 2012, London - Meet end users, from across a range of industry sectors, and the world's leading solution providers to gauge how to drive customer retention and competitive advantage with text analytics
- Big data analysis: Store and analyse large amounts of data to make real time decisions and extract deep insights
- Pioneering multi-lingual tools: Unlock the value of multi-lingual data through real time sentiment analysis, including speech analytics
- Cross-sector consumer experiences: Learn how companies across different sectors harness text analytics for customer experience management to drive competitive advantage
- The future of text analytics and how to boost your business: Understand the reality of “tall tales” to see where you can make real progress, and evaluate pioneering multi-channel tools
- Social media and voice of customer analytics: Understand how to accurately capture and analyse the voice of your customer to improve the marketing of your product / service and drive customer retention
Download the brochure to see the full agenda and who you can meet on site.

2. Message From The Editor

Our data science / big data e-book is now available on Amazon. Feel free to "like" it, or post your review. We have reached more than 10,000 downloads. Talking about statistics, our LinkedIn group is growing exponentially, and we now have 2,000 new members and 400 new discussions per month.
Interviews with Analytic Leaders: we are starting a new series of interviews about data science, big data, vizualisation, in-memory analytics, AaaS, data mining regulations, privacy, areas of growth, career advice, etc. If you want to participate, please contact us at vincentg@datashaping.com. You can check our list of 20 questions at analyticbridge.com/group/data-science-q-a.
We now offer free analytic and management consulting. Many of our patentable solutions are described in our free 72-page Data Science book. We also offer licensing solutions for software developers, starting at zero dollars. Topics include data-driven confidence intervals, secure and efficient random number generators, enhanced sales forecasts, Analytics as a Service, perfect Ad relevancy, data dictionary, scoring technology, advanced fraud detection, econometric index and much more.
We have made our three popular news feeds (job ads, conferences, network news) easier than ever to install on your blog or website. Now it's as simple as cut and paste. Download these feeds and paste the Javascript code on your web pages. Et voila! Now you have good quality content on your website, automatically updated every 3 hours or so.
Miscellaneous
- New groups: European Chapter | Data Science Q&A
- To become a Certified Analytic Professional (CAP), join our Certified Analytics LinkedIn group. Applications are reviewed within 2-3 days, approvals are based on your bio, and there is no cost, no exam.
- AnalyticBridge on Social Networks: Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Twitter News | Google+
- New Featured Members | New Books | New White Papers | New Photos | New Videos | New Conferences

3. Selected News and Contributions

4. Job Section

This newsletter is sent monthly to AnalyticBridge / DataShaping members and subscribers, as well as members of our LinkedIn group and connections. To subscribe, click here. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions below. To advertise with us, visit our e-store.