"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. of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University). The last 30 min will be devoted to open discussion. Further details on the ISA website. How are statistical models used in your field? here are some points for thought. Twitter hashtag: #explainpredict.
June 18, 2012
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:
"Leveraging Business Value through Analytics" - upcoming exec ed program (Jan 2013)
A bit futuristic, but for those who like to plan ahead: I'll be co-instructing a 3-day executive education program with Prof. Ram Gopal on "Leveraging Business Value through Analytics". The program will take place in early January on ISB Hyderabad campus. The perfect weather for a hot workshop!
Introduction to Business Analytics (ISB, June 24, 2012)
What is Business Analytics and why does BA knowledge give an advantage in the marketplace? Our age of data means that firms and organisations collect growing amounts of micro-data about customers, transactions, outcomes, and more. Yet, most organizations are data rich but information poor. Business analytics is a set of approaches and techniques for extracting useful information from large amounts of existing data. Different from statistics, BA focuses on predictions of future outcomes at the micro-level. BA has helped businesses and their leaders transform the decision making process from intuition-based to reason-based, backed by hard data. This workshop will give you a sneak preview into the two electives (BIDM and BSFC) offered at ISB by Professor Galit Shmueli and give you a chance to hear from industry about real-life use cases
June 10, 2012
"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. Further information and registration
Prof. Galit Shmueli, Institute of Service Science, College of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, 101 Kuang Fu Road Sec. 2, Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan
