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September 3, 2013

Online course on "Forecasting Analytics" starts September 13

I'll be instructing a 4-week online course Forecasting Analytics at Statistics.com. Learn about popular forecasting methods and how to implement them in practice through a hands-on online course. This is a practical course that introduces forecasting methods, performance evaluation, and much more. The course is of interest to practitioners and researchers in business, environmental sciences, agriculture, tourism and any field that collects time series data. It is also useful for instructors developing a new forecasting analytics course. The text for the course is Practical Time Series Forecasting: A Hands-On Guide, available globally through Amazon and as a Kindle book.

September 2, 2013

Best paper award at ICIOMS 2013 conference

Our paper "Fitting COM-Poisson Mixtures to Bimodal Count Data", presented by Smarajit Bose at the 1st International Conference on Information, Operations Management and Statistics (ICIOMS 2013), just won "best paper award" for the conference.

August 29, 2013

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.

August 12, 2013

Article in August issue of OR/MS Today: "Business Analytics courses are an excellent ground for industry-academia partnerships"

Cover of the August 2013 issue of OR/MS Today Magazine

The August 2013 issue of OR/MS Today Magazine, which is a special issue on Innovative Education, features an article that I co-author with Rajib Saha and Reema Gupta. The article describes the methods that Rajib and I designed and implemented in our course "Business Analytics Using Data Mining" to give students as much industry experience as possible through data mining contests, real-data projects, and more. Read more here (PDF also attached). For those in search of humor: The price of not requesting us to read proofs resulted in silly typos such as "India School of Business", or the more hilarious "Galit Shmueli is the Srini Raju Centre..."

August 12, 2013

Talking about classroom flipping at AIMS annual conference

I'll be talking about the flipped and semi-MOOC course "Business Analytics Using Data Mining" that I designed and implemented at ISB at the upcoming annual convention of The Association of Indian Management Schools, in Mumbai.

This will be part of a panel on Academic Leadership: The Technology Factor, moderated by Prof. Arun Pereira. The panel will take place on Aug 24, 10:15-11:30.

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