Seminar talk at NTHU's Institute of Statistics (joint with NCTU)

On Friday, April 17, I'll be presenting a talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" at National Tsing Hua University's Institute of Statistics. This is a joint seminar with National Chiao Tung University's Institute of Statistics.

Time: 10:40am
Location: General Building III, Room 837, Institute of Statistics, NTHU
More information and abstract

"Predicting, Explaining and the Business Analytics Toolkit": Keynote at the upcoming 2014 NASSCOM Big Data & Analytics Summit

I'll be presenting a keynote talk at the upcoming NASSCOM Big Data & Analytics Summit on Friday, June 27, 2014. In earlier talks, I have been emphasizing and introducing the advantages of predictive analytics. In this talk, I start from predictive analytics and move on to causal explanation.

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"The Forest or the Trees? Tackling Simpson's Paradox in Big Data with Trees" - at ECIS 2014

Earlier this month, Inbal Yahav (Bar Ilan University) and I presented our joint work on detecting Simpson's Paradox in big data as a poster at ECIS 2014 (thanks to the many interested visitors!), and at 2014 SCECR. This work describes an unusual use of classification and regression trees for a causal goal, rather than their normal use in prediction. We develop a tree variant that helps detect possible paradoxes in large datasets.

Last talk for 2013: "To Explain or To Predict?" at IIM-Ahmedabad

I'll be giving a seminar talk on "To Explain or To Predict" at the Production and Quantitative Methods group at IIM-A on December 31, 2013.

Venue: Wing 11, Faculty Lounge, IIM Ahmedabad
Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2013

"To Explain or To Predict?" at Rotterdam School of Management

I'll be giving a talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" at Rotterdam School of Management on Monday, Nov 4, 2013. My host, Otto Koppius, is also my co-author on a related MISQ paper "Predictive Analytics in IS Research".

Upcoming talk "To Explain or To Predict?" at Darden School of Business

I'll be giving a talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" at UVA's Darden School of Business on Nov 8, 2013. For more information, see this page.

Talk at Academia Sinica: "To Explain or To Predict?"

I will be delivering a talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" at the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica in Taipei, on September 9, 2013. For more information, see the announcement page or the attached.

"To Explain or To Predict?" - seminar at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (Feb 23, 2013)

I'll be giving a guest lecture on "To Explain or To Predict?" at the Postgraduate Institute of Science (PGIS) at the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka. See the abstract and further details.

"To Explain or To Predict?" - seminar at Tel Aviv University (July 9, 2012)

Joint event of Israel Statistical Association and Tel Aviv University's Dept of Statistics and OR on "To Explain or To Predict?" will take on July 9, at Melamed Auditorium 15:00-17:30. I will give the opening talk, followed by three discussants: Prof. Shlomo Havlin (Dept of Physics, Bar Ilan University), Prof. Irad Ben-Gal (Dept of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University), and Prof. Uri Goldbourt (Dept.

"Explain or Predict" pre-ENBIS workshop (Sept 9, 2012)

I will co-instruct a workshop on "To Explain or To Predict?" at the 2012 ENBIS conference, together with Ron Kenett. The workshop will take place on Sept 9, 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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