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.

Talking about the flipped (MOOC-style) Business Analytics course at INFORMS

I'll be describing and discussing my efforts and experience in re-designing the Business Analytics Using Data Mining course as a hybrid semi-MOOC course in tomorrow's 11am Analytics/INFORMS-Ed session at INFORMS. See here for location and details.

Two talks at CIST today: impact assessment using trees; One-way mirrors in online dating

I'll be presenting our paper "Impact Assessment in Observational Studies: A Classification and Regression Tree Approach" (with Deepa Mani) in today's 2pm session at CIST 2013, Room 102A.

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.

"Data Liberation Through Visualization: Cancer in India" talk @ Open Data Camp

In the upcoming Open Data Camp 2013 to be held at ISB's Hyderabad campus, I will present a recent project by the Asia Analytics Lab's Data Liberation Through Visualization initiative. In this project we collected, organized and created dashboards of data on cancer incidence in India. The dashboards were made publicly available.

Webinar at Royal Statistical Society's Journal Club

"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.

Won the Greenfield Challenge!

The Greenfield Challenge, in a nutshell, is: "Tell the world, outside your circle, of work you have done, and done successfully because you used statistics."

Talk at Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana: "A Flexible Model for Count Data: The COM Poisson"

The talk that I gave yesterday at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana was recorded and available at VideoLectures.net.

Below are my slides.

Recording of "Intro to Business Analytics" at ISB now available

On June 24, 2012 we had an event called "Intro to Business Analytics" at ISB's Hyderabad campus (see my earlier post). The event was live streamed to the Mohali campus. Now the 1-hour recording of my talk is publicly available.

Talks