Keynote at Discovery Summit Europe (Prague, Mar 22)

To Explain Or To Predict travels to Prague! I'll be delivering a keynote address at the upcoming Discovery Summit on Wednesday March 22, 2017, 11AM at the Prague Marriott Hotel. The two other keynote speakers are John Sall (co-founder and executive VP of SAS) and Prof. Ron Kenett.

Keynote at Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering at Technion

On Wednesday morning (Nov 23), I'll be giving a keynote talk at the 2016 Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering with the title "Research Using Behavioral Big Data: A Tour and Why Mechanical Engineers Should Care". This is the first time I'll be presenting to an audience of mechanical engineers and I see it as an important opportunity to foster collaborations between the designers and creators of "things" and those using the data generated by the "things".

Interview on Analytically Speaking

Next week I'll be headed to SAS headquarters in Cary, NC for an interview on Analytically Speaking. I look forward to Anne Milley's thought-provoking questions! The announcement promises to walk through several of my research areas:

New Working Paper: Analyzing Behavioral Big Data

In preparation for my plenary talk at the Stu Hunter Research Conference next month, I have written the paper "Analyzing Behavioral Big Data: Methodological, Practical, Ethical, and Moral Issues", now available on SSRN. My talk will be followed by two discussants and hopefully a heated debate from the audience. If you have feedback on the paper or the topic, please email me!

Talk @ INFORMS: Trees for Detecting Simpson's Paradox in Big Data

Tomorrow at INFORMS's Data Mining Cluster @ 1:30pm, I'll be presenting my work (with Inbal Yahav) "The Forest or the Trees? Tackling Simpson’s Paradox with Classification and Regression Trees". I'll show the special use of the tree structure that we take advantage of in order to detect whether a dataset has Simpson's Paradox (reversal of a causal direction when disaggregating the data).

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.

Instructing 2-day workshop on Data Exploration & Visualization (INFORMS Continuing Education Program)

I'll be co-instructing a two-day intensive workshop on Data Exploration and Visualization, together with David Hardoon, as part of the new INFORMS Continuing Education program. The workshop will take place in two locations: Redwood City (Sept 30-Oct 1, 2013) and Minneapolis (Oct 3-4, 2013).

Talking about classroom flipping at AIMS annual conference

2-Day Crash Course: Effective Data Presentation (Thimphu, 28-29 March)

I'll be instructing a 2-day crash course on Effective Data Presentation on March 28-29, 2013 at the Rigsum Institute in Thimphu.

This course is a must for those who collect, analyze or present data or statistics. We will use data from Bhutan and software that is accessible to many (Microsoft Excel and Tableau Public).

Conferences & Workshops