"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.

Data Liberation Through Visualization: Poster and Live Demo (June 23, 2012)

For the Asia Analytics Lab initiative "Data Liberation Through Visualization", we'll be presenting a poster and live demo at the upcoming Open Data Camp, showcasing a large dataset on migration in India. For a preview:

"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.

Keynote "De-Mystifying Predictive Analytics" @ ReTechCon (Mumbai, May 17-18)

Next month, I'll be delivering the keynote address at the annual conference of the Retailers Association of India, called the Retail Technology Conclave (ReTechCon). Here is the synopsis for my talk on "De-mystifying Predictive Analytics":

Upcoming talk @ Tel Aviv University: COM-Poisson Regression

I'll be giving a talk on COM-Poisson Regression: A Flexible Model for Count Data on January 11, 2011 (that is, 11/1/11) at 10:30am at Schreiber 309.

For more details, click here.

Upcoming invited talk at New England Stat Symposium (May 19)

I will be giving an invited talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" (an abridged version of the 1-hour talk) at the 2010 New England Statistics Symposium, to be held this year at Harvard. Although my talk is within the "business" invited session, it definitely extends to all sciences using statistics, and especially to statisticians who are mostly concerned with descriptive modeling (which is neither explanatory, nor predictive).

To Explain or To Predict? Talk @ Georgetown University

The talk is part of the Math (and Stat) Department's seminar series, and will take place on Friday Nov 30. For details click here.

"To Explain or To Predict?" @ Columbia University

I'll be presenting my work on the difference between explanatory and predictive modeling at Columbia University's Stat department PhD colloquim on Thursday Sept 17. This event is open to visitors, so feel free to drop in. A lively conversation is guaranteed. More details are available here.

"The Challenge of Prediction in IS Research" -- Talk at Tel Aviv Univ's Recanati School of Management

This week I will be presenting a talk, based on our paper "The Challenge of Prediction in Information Systems Research", at the Recanati School of Management, Tel Aviv University. The talk will take place on Wednesday, Aug 12, at 12:30 in room 403. This talk is of interest to researchers in the social sciences who emply statistical modeling. For more information click here.

Visit to IIMC (Kolkata)

IIMC is the first residential business school that I have seen: all grad students live on campus! My gracious host Dean (cum statistician!) Saibal Chattopadhyay gave me a tour on campus and a "tour" of their different programs.

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