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Interview Dan Steinberg Founder Salford Systems
Here is an interview with Dan Steinberg, Founder and President of Salford Systems (http://www.salford-systems.com/ )
Ajay- Describe your journey from academia to technology entrepreneurship. What are the key milestones or turning points that you remember.
Dan- When I was in graduate school studying econometrics at Harvard, a number of distinguished professors at Harvard (and MIT) were actively involved in substantial real world activities. Professors that I interacted with, or studied with, or whose software I used became involved in the creation of such companies as Sun Microsystems, Data Resources, Inc. or were heavily involved in business consulting through their own companies or other influential consultants. Some not involved in private sector consulting took on substantial roles in government such as membership on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. The atmosphere was one that encouraged free movement between academia and the private sector so the idea of forming a consulting and software company was quite natural and did not seem in any way inconsistent with being devoted to the advancement of science.
Ajay- What are the latest products by Salford Systems? Any future product plans or modification to work on Big Data analytics, mobile computing and cloud computing.
Dan- Our central set of data mining technologies are CART, MARS, TreeNet, RandomForests, and PRIM, and we have always maintained feature rich logistic regression and linear regression modules. In our latest release scheduled for January 2012 we will be including a new data mining approach to linear and logistic regression allowing for the rapid processing of massive numbers of predictors (e.g., one million columns), with powerful predictor selection and coefficient shrinkage. The new methods allow not only classic techniques such as ridge and lasso regression, but also sub-lasso model sizes. Clear tradeoff diagrams between model complexity (number of predictors) and predictive accuracy allow the modeler to select an ideal balance suitable for their requirements.
The new version of our data mining suite, Salford Predictive Modeler (SPM), also includes two important extensions to the boosted tree technology at the heart of TreeNet. The first, Importance Sampled learning Ensembles (ISLE), is used for the compression of TreeNet tree ensembles. Starting with, say, a 1,000 tree ensemble, the ISLE compression might well reduce this down to 200 reweighted trees. Such compression will be valuable when models need to be executed in real time. The compression rate is always under the modeler's control, meaning that if a deployed model may only contain, say, 30 trees, then the compression will deliver an optimal 30-tree weighted ensemble. Needless to say, compression of tree ensembles should be expected to be lossy and how much accuracy is lost when extreme compression is desired will vary from case to case. Prior to ISLE, practitioners have simply truncated the ensemble to the maximum allowable size. The new methodology will substantially outperform truncation.
The second major advance is RULEFIT, a rule extraction engine that starts with a TreeNet model and decomposes it into the most interesting and predictive rules. RULEFIT is also a tree ensemble post-processor and offers the possibility of improving on the original TreeNet predictive performance. One can think of the rule extraction as an alternative way to explain and interpret an otherwise complex multi-tree model. The rules extracted are similar conceptually to the terminal nodes of a CART tree but the various rules will not refer to mutually exclusive regions of the data.
Ajay- You have led teams that have won multiple data mining competitions. What are some of your favorite techniques or approaches to a data mining problem.
Dan- We only enter competitions involving problems for which our technology is suitable, generally, classification and regression. In these areas, we are partial to TreeNet because it is such a capable and robust learning machine. However, we always find great value in analyzing many aspects of a data set with CART, especially when we require a compact and easy to understand story about the data. CART is exceptionally well suited to the discovery of errors in data, often revealing errors created by the competition organizers themselves. More than once, our reports of data problems have been responsible for the competition organizer's decision to issue a corrected version of the data and we have been the only group to discover the problem.
In general, tackling a data mining competition is no different than tackling any analytical challenge. You must start with a solid conceptual grasp of the problem and the actual objectives, and the nature and limitations of the data. Following that comes feature extraction, the selection of a modeling strategy (or strategies), and then extensive experimentation to learn what works best.
Ajay- I know you have created your own software. But are there other software that you use or liked to use?
Dan- For analytics we frequently test open source software to make sure that our tools will in fact deliver the superior performance we advertise. In general, if a problem clearly requires technology other than that offered by Salford, we advise clients to seek other consultants expert in that other technology.
Ajay- Your software is installed at 3500 sites including 400 universities as per http://www.salford-systems.com/company/aboutus/index.html What is the key to managing and keeping so many customers happy?
Dan- First, we have taken great pains to make our software reliable and we make every effort to avoid problems related to bugs. Our testing procedures are extensive and we have experts dedicated to stress-testing software . Second, our interface is designed to be natural, intuitive, and easy to use, so the challenges to the new user are minimized. Also, clear documentation, help files, and training videos round out how we allow the user to look after themselves. Should a client need to contact us we try to achieve 24-hour turn around on tech support issues and monitor all tech support activity to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and helpfulness of our responses. WebEx/GotoMeeting and other internet based contact permit real time interaction.
Ajay- What do you do to relax and unwind?
Dan- I am in the gym almost every day combining weight and cardio training. No matter how tired I am before the workout I always come out energized so locating a good gym during my extensive travels is a must. I am also actively learning Portuguese so I look to watch a Brazilian TV show or Portuguese dubbed movie when I have time; I almost never watch any form of video unless it is available in Portuguese.
Dan Steinberg, President and Founder of Salford Systems, is a well-respected member of the statistics and econometrics communities. In 1992, he developed the first PC-based implementation of the original CART procedure, working in concert with Leo Breiman, Richard Olshen, Charles Stone and Jerome Friedman. In addition, he has provided consulting services on a number of biomedical and market research projects, which have sparked further innovations in the CART program and methodology.
Dr. Steinberg received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and has given full day presentations on data mining for the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association and the American Statistical Association. After earning a PhD in Econometrics at Harvard Steinberg began his professional career as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, and then as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. A book he co-authored on Classification and Regression Trees was awarded the 1999 Nikkei Quality Control Literature Prize in Japan for excellence in statistical literature promoting the improvement of industrial quality control and management.
His consulting experience at Salford Systems has included complex modeling projects for major banks worldwide, including Citibank, Chase, American Express, Credit Suisse, and has included projects in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Korea, Japan and Brazil. Steinberg led the teams that won first place awards in the KDDCup 2000, and the 2002 Duke/TeraData Churn modeling competition, and the teams that won awards in the PAKDD competitions of 2006 and 2007. He has published papers in economics, econometrics, computer science journals, and contributes actively to the ongoing research and development at Salford.
Heritage prize= 3mill now open
I am still angry with THE netflix for 1 mill I lost out. No sweat! this time the money is 3 times as much, it is legit, and yes baby you can change the world, make it a better place and get rich.! see details below-http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp/Data
HHP_release1.zip (7.28 mb)HHP_release2.zip (46.58 mb)SampleEntry.csv (1.61 mb)
You must accept this competition's rules before you'll be able to download data files.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The information provided below is intended only to provide general guidance to participants in the Heritage Health Prize Competition and is subject to the Competition Official Rules. Any capitalized term not defined below is defined in the Competition Official Rules. Please consult the Competition Official Rules for complete details.
Heritage Provider Network is providing Competition Entrants with deidentified member data collected during a forty-eight month period that is allocated among three data sets (the "Data Sets"). Competition Entrants will use the Data Sets to develop and test their algorithms for accurately predicting the number of days that the members will spend in a hospital (inpatient or emergency room visit) during the 12-month period following the Data Set cut-off date.
HHP_release2.zip contains the latest files, so you can ignore HHP_release1.zip. SampleEntry.CSV shows you how an entry should look.
Data Sets will be released to Entrants after registration on the Website according to the following schedule:
April 4, 2011 Claims Table – Y1 and DaysInHospital Table – Y2
May 4, 2011
All other Data Sets except Labs Table and Rx Table
From https://www.kaggle.com/
The $3 million Heritage Health Prize opens to entries
By now, people have had a good chance to poke around the first portion of the data. Now the fun starts! HPN have released two more years'-worth of data, set the accuracy threshold and are opening up the competition to entries. The data are available from the Heritage Health Prize page. Good luck to all participants!
The Deloitte/FIDE Chess Ratings Competition results
ICDAR 2011 Competition Results
Revolution R Enterprise
As many of you know, Kaggle offers a free platform, Kaggle-in-Class, for instructors who want to host competitions for their students. For those interested in hearing more about the use of Kaggle-in-Class as a teaching tool, Susan Holmes and Nelson Ray from Stanford University share their experience in a webinar organized by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.
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Google creates a Code Jam
So you think you can code- here is a contest for All – programmers AND students AND professionals
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PAWCON -This week in London
Watch out for the twitter hash news on PAWCON and the exciting agenda lined up. If your in the City- you may want to just drop in
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Little birdie told me some exciting product enhancements may be in the works including a not yet announced R plugin ;) and the latest SAS product using embedded analytics and Dr Elder's full day data mining workshop.
Monday November 15, 2010
All conference sessions take place in Edward 5-7
Registration, Coffee and Danish
Room: Albert Suites
Five Ways Predictive Analytics Cuts Enterprise Risk
All business is an exercise in risk management. All organizations would benefit from measuring, tracking and computing risk as a core process, much like insurance companies do.
Predictive analytics does the trick, one customer at a time. This technology is a data-driven means to compute the risk each customer will defect, not respond to an expensive mailer, consume a retention discount even if she were not going to leave in the first place, not be targeted for a telephone solicitation that would have landed a sale, commit fraud, or become a "loss customer" such as a bad debtor or an insurance policy-holder with high claims.
In this keynote session, Dr. Eric Siegel will reveal:
- Five ways predictive analytics evolves your enterprise to reduce risk
- Hidden sources of risk across operational functions
- What every business should learn from insurance companies
- How advancements have reversed the very meaning of fraud
- Why "man + machine" teams are greater than the sum of their parts for
enterprise decision support
Speaker: Eric Siegel, Ph.D., Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World
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Platinum Sponsor Presentation
The Analytical Revolution
The algorithms at the heart of predictive analytics have been around for years – in some cases for decades. But now, as we see predictive analytics move to the mainstream and become a competitive necessity for organisations in all industries, the most crucial challenges are to ensure that results can be delivered to where they can make a direct impact on outcomes and business performance, and that the application of analytics can be scaled to the most demanding enterprise requirements.
This session will look at the obstacles to successfully applying analysis at the enterprise level, and how today's approaches and technologies can enable the true "industrialisation" of predictive analytics.
Speaker: Colin Shearer, WW Industry Solutions Leader, IBM UK Ltd
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Gold Sponsor Presentation
How Predictive Analytics is Driving Business Value
Organisations are increasingly relying on analytics to make key business decisions. Today, technology advances and the increasing need to realise competitive advantage in the market place are driving predictive analytics from the domain of marketers and tactical one-off exercises to the point where analytics are being embedded within core business processes.
During this session, Richard will share some of the focus areas where Deloitte is driving business transformation through predictive analytics, including Workforce, Brand Equity and Reputational Risk, Customer Insight and Network Analytics.
Speaker: Richard Fayers, Senior Manager, Deloitte Analytical Insight
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Break / Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Case Study: Life Line Screening
Taking CRM Global Through Predictive Analytics
While Life Line is successfully executing a US CRM roadmap, they are also beginning this same evolution abroad. They are beginning in the UK where Merkle procured data and built a response model that is pulling responses over 30% higher than competitors. This presentation will give an overview of the US CRM roadmap, and then focus on the beginning of their strategy abroad, focusing on the data procurement they could not get anywhere else but through Merkle and the successful modeling and analytics for the UK.
Speaker: Ozgur Dogan, VP, Quantitative Solutions Group, Merkle Inc.
Speaker: Trish Mathe, Life Line Screening
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Open Source Analytics; Healthcare
Case Study: A large health care organization
The Rise of Open Source Analytics: Lowering Costs While Improving Patient Care
Rapidminer and R were the number 1 and 2 in this years annual KDNuggets data mining tool usage poll, followed by Knime on place 4 and Weka on place 6. So what's going on here? Are these open source tools really that good or is their popularity strongly correlated with lower acquisition costs alone? This session answers these questions based on a real world case for a large health care organization and explains the risks & benefits of using open source technology. The final part of the session explains how these tools stack up against their traditional, proprietary counterparts.
Speaker: Jos van Dongen, Associate & Principal, DeltIQ Group
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Lunch / Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Thought Leader:
Case Study: Yahoo! and other large on-line e-businesses
Search Marketing and Predictive Analytics: SEM, SEO and On-line Marketing Case Studies
Search Engine Marketing is a $15B industry in the U.S. growing to double that number over the next 3 years. Worldwide the SEM market was over $50B in 2010. Not only is this a fast growing area of marketing, but it is one that has significant implications for brand and direct marketing and is undergoing rapid change with emerging channels such as mobile and social. What is unique about this area of marketing is a singularly heavy dependence on analytics:
- Large numbers of variables and options
- Real-time auctions/bids and a need to adjust strategies in real-time
- Difficult optimization problems on allocating spend across a huge number of keywords
- Fast-changing competitive terrain and heavy competition on the obvious channels
- Complicated interactions between various channels and a large choice of search keyword expansion possibilities
- Profitability and ROI analysis that are complex and often challenging
The size of the industry, its growing importance in marketing, its upcoming role in Mobile Advertising, and its uniquely heavy reliance on analytics makes it particularly interesting as an area for predictive analytics applications. In this session, not only will hear about some of the latest strategies and techniques to optimize search, you will hear case studies that illustrate the important role of analytics from industry practitioners.
Speaker: Usama Fayyad, , Ph.D., CEO, Open Insights
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Platinum Sponsor Presentation
Creating a Model Factory Using in-Database Analytics
With the ever-increasing number of analytical models required to make fact-based decisions, as well as increasing audit compliance regulations, it is more important than ever that these models can be created, monitored, retuned and deployed as quickly and automatically as possible. This paper, using a case study from a major financial organisation, will show how organisations can build a model factory efficiently using the latest SAS technology that utilizes the power of in-database processing.
Speaker: John Spooner, Analytics Specialist, SAS (UK)
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Session Break
Room: Albert Suites
Case Study: SABMiller
Predictive Analytics & Global Marketing Strategy
Over the last few years SABMiller plc, the second largest brewing company in the world operating in 70 countries, has been systematically segmenting its markets in different countries globally in order optimize their portfolio strategy & align it to their long term country specific growth strategy. This presentation talks about the overall methodology followed and the challenges that had to be overcome both from a technical as well as from a change management stand point in order to successfully implement a standard analytics approach to diverse markets and diverse business positions in a highly global setting.
The session explains how country specific growth strategies were converted to objective variables and consumption occasion segments were created that differentiated the market effectively by their growth potential. In addition to this the presentation will also provide a discussion on issues like:
- The dilemmas of static vs. dynamic solutions and standardization vs. adaptable solutions
- Challenges in acceptability, local capability development, overcoming implementation inertia, cost effectiveness, etc
- The role that business partners at SAB and analytics service partners at AbsolutData together play in providing impactful and actionable solutions
Speaker: Anne Stephens, SABMiller plc
Speaker: Titir Pal, AbsolutData
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Case Study: Overtoom Belgium
Increasing Marketing Relevance Through Personalized Targeting
Since many years, Overtoom Belgium – a leading B2B retailer and division of the French Manutan group – focuses on an extensive use of CRM. In this presentation, we demonstrate how Overtoom has integrated Predictive Analytics to optimize customer relationships. In this process, they employ analytics to develop answers to the key question: "which product should we offer to which customer via which channel". We show how Overtoom gained a 10% revenue increase by replacing the existing segmentation scheme with accurate predictive response models. Additionally, we illustrate how Overtoom succeeds to deliver more relevant communications by offering personalized promotional content to every single customer, and how these personalized offers positively impact Overtoom's conversion rates.
Speaker: Dr. Geert Verstraeten, Python Predictions
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Break / Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Uplift Modelling:
Case Study: Lloyds TSB General Insurance & US Bank
Uplift Modelling: You Should Not Only Measure But Model Incremental Response
Most marketing analysts understand that measuring the impact of a marketing campaign requires a valid control group so that uplift (incremental response) can be reported. However, it is much less widely understood that the targeting models used almost everywhere do not attempt to optimize that incremental measure. That requires an uplift model.
This session will explain why a switch to uplift modelling is needed, illustrate what can and does go wrong when they are not used and the hugely positive impact they can have when used effectively. It will also discuss a range of approaches to building and assessing uplift models, from simple basic adjustments to existing modelling processes through to full-blown uplift modelling.
The talk will use Lloyds TSB General Insurance & US Bank as a case study and also illustrate real-world results from other companies and sectors.
Speaker: Nicholas Radcliffe, Founder and Director, Stochastic Solutions
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Consumer services
Case Study: Canadian Automobile Association and other B2C examples
The Diminishing Marginal Returns of Variable Creation in Predictive Analytics Solutions
Variable Creation is the key to success in any predictive analytics exercise. Many different approaches are adopted during this process, yet there are diminishing marginal returns as the number of variables increase. Our organization conducted a case study on four existing clients to explore this so-called diminishing impact of variable creation on predictive analytics solutions. Existing predictive analytics solutions were built using our traditional variable creation process. Yet, presuming that we could exponentially increase the number of variables, we wanted to determine if this added significant benefit to the existing solution.
Speaker: Richard Boire, BoireFillerGroup
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Reception / Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Tuesday November 16, 2010
All conference sessions take place in Edward 5-7
Registration, Coffee and Danish
Room: Albert Suites
Multiple Case Studies: Anheuser-Busch, Disney, HP, HSBC, Pfizer, and others
The High ROI of Data Mining for Innovative Organizations
Data mining and advanced analytics can enhance your bottom line in three basic ways, by 1) streamlining a process, 2) eliminating the bad, or 3) highlighting the good. In rare situations, a fourth way – creating something new – is possible. But modern organizations are so effective at their core tasks that data mining usually results in an iterative, rather than transformative, improvement. Still, the impact can be dramatic.
Dr. Elder will share the story (problem, solution, and effect) of nine projects conducted over the last decade for some of America's most innovative agencies and corporations:
- Streamline:
- Cross-selling for HSBC
- Image recognition for Anheuser-Busch
- Biometric identification for Lumidigm (for Disney)
- Optimal decisioning for Peregrine Systems (now part of Hewlett-Packard)
- Quick decisions for the Social Security Administration
- Eliminate Bad:
- Tax fraud detection for the IRS
- Warranty Fraud detection for Hewlett-Packard
- Highlight Good:
- Sector trading for WestWind Foundation
- Drug efficacy discovery for Pharmacia & UpJohn (now Pfizer)
Moderator: Eric Siegel, Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World
Speaker: John Elder, Ph.D., Elder Research, Inc.
Also see Dr. Elder's full-day workshop
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Break / Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Case Study: Leading Telecommunications Operator
Predictive Analytics and Efficient Fact-based Marketing
The presentation describes what are the major topics and issues when you introduce predictive analytics and how to build a Fact-Based marketing environment. The introduced tools and methodologies proved to be highly efficient in terms of improving the overall direct marketing activity and customer contact operations for the involved companies. Generally, the introduced approaches have great potential for organizations with large customer bases like Mobile Operators, Internet Giants, Media Companies, or Retail Chains.
Main Introduced Solutions:-Automated Serial Production of Predictive Models for Campaign Targeting-Automated Campaign Measurements and Tracking Solutions-Precise Product Added Value Evaluation.
Speaker: Tamer Keshi, Ph.D., Long-term contractor, T-Mobile
Speaker: Beata Kovacs, International Head of CRM Solutions, Deutsche Telekom
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Session Changeover
Thought Leader
Nine Laws of Data Mining
Data mining is the predictive core of predictive analytics, a business process that finds useful patterns in data through the use of business knowledge. The industry standard CRISP-DM methodology describes the process, but does not explain why the process takes the form that it does. I present nine "laws of data mining", useful maxims for data miners, with explanations that reveal the reasons behind the surface properties of the data mining process. The nine laws have implications for predictive analytics applications: how and why it works so well, which ambitions could succeed, and which must fail.
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Lunch / Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Expert Panel: Kaboom! Predictive Analytics Hits the Mainstream
Predictive analytics has taken off, across industry sectors and across applications in marketing, fraud detection, credit scoring and beyond. Where exactly are we in the process of crossing the chasm toward pervasive deployment, and how can we ensure progress keeps up the pace and stays on target?
This expert panel will address:
- How much of predictive analytics' potential has been fully realized?
- Where are the outstanding opportunities with greatest potential?
- What are the greatest challenges faced by the industry in achieving wide scale adoption?
- How are these challenges best overcome?
Panelist: John Elder, Ph.D., Elder Research, Inc.
Panelist: Colin Shearer, WW Industry Solutions Leader, IBM UK Ltd
Panelist: Udo Sglavo, Global Analytic Solutions Manager, SAS
Panel moderator: Eric Siegel, Ph.D., Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World
Session Changeover
Crowdsourcing Data Mining
Case Study: University of Melbourne, Chessmetrics
Prediction Competitions: Far More Than Just a Bit of Fun
Data modelling competitions allow companies and researchers to post a problem and have it scrutinised by the world's best data scientists. There are an infinite number of techniques that can be applied to any modelling task but it is impossible to know at the outset which will be most effective. By exposing the problem to a wide audience, competitions are a cost effective way to reach the frontier of what is possible from a given dataset. The power of competitions is neatly illustrated by the results of a recent bioinformatics competition hosted by Kaggle. It required participants to pick markers in HIV's genetic sequence that coincide with changes in the severity of infection. Within a week and a half, the best entry had already outdone the best methods in the scientific literature. This presentation will cover how competitions typically work, some case studies and the types of business modelling challenges that the Kaggle platform can address.
Speaker: Anthony Goldbloom, Kaggle Pty Ltd
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Breaks /Exhibits
Room: Albert Suites
Human Resources; e-Commerce
Case Study: Naukri.com, Jeevansathi.com
Increasing Marketing ROI and Efficiency of Candidate-Search with Predictive Analytics
InfoEdge, India's largest and most profitable online firm with a bouquet of internet properties has been Google's biggest customer in India. Our team used predictive modeling to double our profits across multiple fronts. For Naukri.com, India's number 1 job portal, predictive models target jobseekers most relevant to the recruiter. Analytical insights provided a deeper understanding of recruiter behaviour and informed a redesign of this product's recruiter search functionality. This session will describe how we did it, and also reveal how Jeevansathi.com, India's 2nd-largest matrimony portal, targets the acquisition of consumers in the market for marriage.
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Speaker: Eric Siegel, Ph.D., Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World
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Wednesday November 17, 2010
Full-day Workshop
The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics:
Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes
Click here for the detailed workshop description
- Workshop starts at 9:00am
- First AM Break from 10:00 – 10:15
- Second AM Break from 11:15 – 11:30
- Lunch from 12:30 – 1:15pm
- First PM Break: 2:00 – 2:15
- Second PM Break: 3:15 – 3:30
- Workshop ends at 4:30pm
Speaker: John Elder, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Elder Research, Inc.


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Just bought an iPad 1? Apple will give you a $100 refund
Did yesterday's iPad 2 launch get smoke pouring from your ears and considering hurling your shiny new iPad at a Steve Jobs effigy? Well fret not, because if you bought a new iPad since February 16, Apple will give you a rebate equal to the clearance price drops announced yesterday on the remaining stock.
For most people that means $100, but could vary for people outside the U.S.
Of course anyone who reads DVICE on a regular basis shouldn't be in this jam, because we've been talking about the iPad 2 for months.
There doesn't appear to be an official announcement of this policy on the Apple website, but comments on several other blogs report that people were successfully getting the refund at their local Apple Store. Still, I wouldn't dawdle, because there's no telling how long this offer might last.
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Just curious what is the best way people have found to melt down the cacao butter without the use of water or a microwave?
Just looking to elongate the life of my grinders and I would rather it go in as a liquid than a solid!
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Yep, I put mine in a saucepan and melt over a gas cooker/flame.
And this wont burn it? Just put it on the lowest setting like Adam said for in the oven? I am more or less looking for efficiency and this may be quicker? I will have to try both I suppose!
So let it melt half way then pult it off and let it finish so it doesnt burn on the lowest setting?
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That's a good point - I always chop mine before melting or use Mycryo which is in powdered form.
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What is quantitative easing?
Since the global financial crisis, both the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve have used the policy of quantitative easing (QE) to try to revive consumer spending and economic growth.
In the UK, the Bank of England began its "asset purchases" in January 2009.
The Bank has so far committed a total of £375bn to QE, while in September the Fed said it would spend a further $40bn (£25bn) per month. This was on top of the $2.3tn the Fed had already put into QE since 2008.
At the Bank's meeting in early February, governor Sir Mervyn King backed more action to boost the amount of QE purchases above £375bn but was outvoted by his colleagues.
What is quantitative easing?
Usually, central banks try to raise the amount of lending and activity in the economy indirectly, by cutting interest rates.
Lower interest rates encourage people to spend, not save. But when interest rates can go no lower, a central bank's only option is to pump money into the economy directly. That is quantitative easing (QE).
The way the central bank does this is by buying assets - usually government bonds - using money it has simply created out of thin air.
The institutions selling those bonds (either commercial banks or other financial businesses such as insurance companies) will then have "new" money in their accounts, which then boosts the money supply.
It was tried first by a central bank in Japan to get it out of a period of deflation following its asset bubble collapse in the 1990s.
Prior to 2009, QE had never been tried before in the UK.
Is this printing money?
These days the Bank of England does not have to literally print money - it is all done electronically.
However, economists still argue that QE is the same principle as printing money as it is a deliberate expansion of the central bank's balance sheet and the monetary base.
How does it work?
Under QE a central bank purchases government bonds from private sector companies or institutions, typically insurance companies, pension funds and High Street banks.
This increased demand for the government bonds pushes up their value, thereby making them more expensive to buy, and so they become a less attractive investment.
This means that the companies who sold the bonds may use the proceeds to invest in other companies or lend to individuals, rather than buying any more of the bonds.
The hope is that with banks, pension funds and insurance firms now more enthusiastic about lending to companies and individuals, the interest rates they charge fall, so more money is spent and the economy is boosted.Quantitative Easing: Step by step
How do you know if it has worked?
A Bank of England report into the effect of its first round of QE (that is, the £200bn worth of purchases made between March and November 2009) suggested that the measure had helped to increase the UK's annual economic output by between 1.5% and 2%, indicating that the effects of the programme had been "economically significant".
Yet some analysts have complained that since QE started in the UK in 2008 lending to businesses and individuals has remained sluggish.
The simple fact is, no-one knows how bad the UK economy would have been without QE.
As BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders said: "Quantitative easing may well have saved the economy from a credit-led depression. We will never know."
Has anyone suffered?
One of the effects of QE is to push up the market price of government bonds and consequently to push down the yield they give investors. This has two very important effects.
Firstly, QE has being cited as a major reason why UK company pension scheme deficits, calculated monthly by the Pension Protection Fund, have ballooned.
That is because the cost of paying pensions from final-salary schemes is calculated on the assumption that all their assets are invested in bonds.
As the yield on bonds has dropped, so the stock of assets needed to generate the same level of pension income has gone up.
In May 2012 this collective UK pension scheme deficit reached a record high of £312bn. If this persists then it will have to be paid off by employers, presenting them with a very large bill.
Meanwhile the fall in bond yields has driven down the annual income someone can obtain, by buying an annual pension (an annuity) with their accumulated pension pot.
So, anyone retiring and trying to buy a private pension in the past year or two has lost potential income that they will never get back.
Why are the UK and US's actions different from 1920s Germany and Zimbabwe?
Printing money can be defined as the central bank financing of government debts. This is what happened in both 1920s Germany and Zimbabwe and what the British government will insist it is not doing, although the short-term effect is similar.
According to the Maastricht Treaty, EU member states are not allowed to finance their public deficits by printing money. That is one reason why the Bank of England has been buying government bonds from financial institutions, not directly from the government.
The Bank believes this form of QE is different because it is "printing money" as part of monetary policy - to prevent deflation. It is not printing money to help the government finance its deficit.
Also, unlike Zimbabwe, this is a temporary policy: the Bank expects to sell the government bonds back into the market when the economy recovers.


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Elections often invite passion and strong disagreement .With a media doing its job providing sunlight and fair reporting , those passions can be checked . They are stopped before they become avenues for character assassinations and divisive paths that destroy our communities .The past couple of years we have seen a group of individuals hide behind an anonymous group name called Character Counts.
They attempt to hide behind a veil of anonymity in order to violate the hope of open and honest debate built into our democratic system . The organization Character Counts found on Face book originally claimed a non partisan status. In the beginning its claim was to stop a candidate for the 23rd District James Olsen and expose his miss conduct..
I have contacted democratic candidates all denying any connection with the group. The comments from this group often attacked other candidates and issues. The attacks were all on Republican candidates. The non partisan aspect is no longer advertised and the group has grown. In the Prosecutors Race the Republican Challenger was personally vilified for just knowing James Olsen,. Donors to James Olsen's candidacy were openly mocked . The ridicule even went to wives of candidates on line. For instance one Character Counts member called the wife of candidate James Olsen a dog . Tea Party members were linked to sexual graphic images.
Through out blogs members of the group have come out in vitriolic attempts to intimidate and ridicule any and all opposition . The complications behind anonymous sucker punching being allowed to continue like this abuse common decency . Once behind their computers this group become zealots for their cause . Embarrass James Olsen and all who disagree with any means necessary. We have seen this in the past targeting Democratic Commissioner Chris Endresen when she was a commissioner with an anonymous web page, political aspirations hold no specific side that is better to the possibility of miss conduct when unchecked .
Originally I was going to name names , give a long list of quotes of over the line quotations from their Anonymous Face Book Account and throughout the media in Kitsap County. Attempt to defend the honor of the community members they vilified, some friends of mine . Quote their religious mocking of different Faith groups from Mormons to Catholics . The names and quotes I got personally directed toward myself for attempting to stand up to them . I have been contacted three times personally by my private email and personal Face book Account . Once being told to stop or else. Not sure what else meant ? All three times intimidation was attempted to silence their apparent justified attempts to bring the James Olsen down or criticize their methods. This cyber bullying should not have been ignored or turned a blind eye to for this long by the Kitsap media . Leaving these issues to partisan and anonymous groups divide communities after the election s are over.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."


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Canon: EOS 550D + 18-55 IS (refurbished) £379.99 @ Canon Ebay outlet.
Original Price = £529 @ Amazon.
PLEASE DONT MARK THIS DEAL AS EXPIRED AS THE LISTING KEEPS UPDATED AFTER SOMETIME. i WILL UPDATE THE LISTING PERIODICALLY.
This is a very good Deal from Canon outlet. This is not been sold by any third party though its listed on Ebay.
Manufacturer refurbished: An item that has been professionally restored to working order by a manufacturer-approved vendor. This means the product has been inspected, cleaned and repaired to meet manufacturer specifications and is in excellent condition. This item may or may not be in its original packaging. See the seller's listing for full details
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- hot_top2 years, 11 months ago #1Show comment tools ReplyBring on some 60D's please! (_;)
- buylowsellhigh2 years, 11 months ago1 Like #2Show comment tools ReplyPrevious thread on this deal.
I must say DJS you are very persistant-is there a cut involved?
I voted it hot twice now.
Edited By: buylowsellhigh on Dec 30, 2011 22:38
- talkshop2 years, 11 months ago #3Show comment tools ReplyAnother Canon repeat ...Aaarghh!
- buylowsellhigh2 years, 11 months ago #4Show comment tools ReplyThe only difference between this and the 600d is the swivelling lcd screen-very good reviews and you have the vast canon lenses to tap into. Probably will be able to sell it on ebay at a profit if you don't like it.
- mikerr2 years, 11 months ago #5Show comment tools ReplytalkshopAnother Canon repeat ...Aaarghh!
Tell me honestly - have you clicked expire ?
Despite the fact that there'll be another along in 15 mins or so?
- djsquare2 years, 11 months ago #6Show comment tools ReplybuylowsellhighPrevious thread on this deal.
I must say DJS you are very persistant-is there a cut involved?
I voted it hot twice now.
Thanks but honestly speaking I am waiting for this kind of price for the new one.My patience is running out. But I want other people to know about this deal because everyone is happy with £480 price range. i am hoping the price will go down by mid January. I dont know how people can mark this deal as Cold. All time wasters...lolz
- daBluone2 years, 11 months ago #7Show comment tools ReplyGotta say negative feedback about seller is putting me off....
Good price though.
- djsquare2 years, 11 months ago #8Show comment tools ReplydaBluoneGotta say negative feedback about seller is putting me off....
Good price though.
Hey just to clarify its not a third party seller. Its Canon themselves. Thats a canon ebay outlet.
- melcarroll2 years, 11 months ago #9Show comment tools ReplyI bought a refurb 60D for my Son's 18th from ebay seller Digigood for £532 just before Christmas. Which was the best price by a long way for a great camera.
hot_topBring on some 60D's please! (_;)
- daBluone2 years, 11 months ago #10Show comment tools ReplydjsquaredaBluoneGotta say negative feedback about seller is putting me off....
Good price though.
Hey just to clarify its not a third party seller. Its Canon themselves. Thats a canon ebay outlet.
But they still have over 200 negative feedback, a lot of it very strongly worded which suggests poor customer service. Pays your money....
I've voted hot either ways.
Edited By: daBluone on Dec 31, 2011 10:07
- djsquare2 years, 11 months ago #11Show comment tools Reply
- djsquare2 years, 11 months ago #12Show comment tools ReplySome people dont understand the concept of the website...The whole idea is to get the best price for any product. If its the best price you can find on the web than the deal is definetly HOT but people understand this website is about the product features. People dont understand that everyone have their own likes and dislikes and most important BUDGET. If you dont like the product than there is no point marking the deal as COLD. I think moderators should make it mandatory for any user to mark the deal as COLD only if they can find any cheaper price for the same product. This will clearly serve the purpose of the website.


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"We have been very impressed with Esteban and so has Nico," head of trackside engineering Tom McCullough told Autosport.
"Sometimes it looks as if Nico beats him easily looking at the qualifying statistics, but it isn't.
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Today's adventure is: "The Crazy Old Salt Mine"
When we started planning this trip we found that there were two main attractions around Krakow, Auschwitz and the Kopalnia Soli (salt mine).
Auschwitz was an experience not to be missed. The salt mine however – lets just say you should look at my pictures on Facebook and save yourself the $150 or so it took to get it all done.
The nice couple from London we met yesterday at Auschwitz had taken the mine tour previously and had some very useful tips on how to make the trip cheaper. They told us where to catch the city bus that would drop us off at the mine for about 80 cents each (most of the commercial tours cost about $30 for transportation). They also warned me that the price for the tour in english was about $40 each. That seemed a little steep but its a once in a lifetime trip so why not right?
Well let me tell you why not. The mine is an impressive 600 years old. But, aside from the crazy depth of the whole place, 135 meters(which is like 400,000 miles I think) and one AMAZING cathedral cut out of the salt, there really wasn't much else there.
It was clear that they were trying to capitalize on tourism because it looked like one big animatronic ride at Disney World. Aside from the fact that you walk a total of 4km(again like 7 billion miles).
So in the end, I am happy we went to see it, I just wish it would have been a little easier on the wallet. Photos to come when we have a good enough connection. Pozegnanie!
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The New Student's Reference Work/Curwen, John
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Curwen, John (1816-1880). Originator of the Tonic Sol-fa method of teaching singing. He was educated for the ministry at University College, London, but became author of Grammar of Vocal Music; A Tonic Sol-fa Primer; Musical Theory; Musical Statics; and other useful works.


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Championship deluxe - dual pads and pin locations. Relatively flat with good mix of wooded and open holes. Challenging and technical with scenic river on three sides. #11-16 are prone to flooding.
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by steven30 on May 1, 2012 at 4:38pm
Nice river bottom woods, some open shots. Great Baskets & Mult. Teepads. The river will be a lost Disc. Bring insect repl. and extra water for hot summer days. Enjoy the challenge this course will bring to you :)
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Loved this course! I really liked the multiple tee pads and multiple baskets with distinctly different paths. I only got to play 10 holes bc it got dark, but I had a blast. You definitely have to hit your lines through the woods, but they are there.
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This was not how a high school sports career was supposed to end for SaVonn Wingate.
If you are going to lose to a conference rival, it's better to come up short in a game which does not count in the league standings.
There is not enough room to list all the accomplishments and/or "firsts" which the Camden High boys tennis program has recorded in head coach Roger Smoak's first 40 years on the job.
Having taken their lumps against the likes of 4A baseball powers Sumter and Spring Valley in scrimmages, Camden did some dealing of its own on Tuesday.
This from the looks can be deceiving department: Camden out-hit West Florence, 9-7. The final score of their Wednesday game? West Florence 11, Camden 2.
AIKEN -- University of South Carolina Aiken baseball player and Camden native Stephen Carmon was selected as the South Carolina Education Lottery USC Aiken Athletic Department Student-Athlete of the Week on Feb. 21, 2011.
It took more than four years and 54 games to happen, but the Camden Middle School girls basketball team saw their 55-game win streak come to an end when the Lady Eagles fell to Furman Middle School in a 57-56 double-overtime thriller in the championship game of the Palmetto Middle School Athletic Conference Tournament hosted by CMS.
Nothing came easy for Camden in the first 16 games of the girls basketball season, so why then, should the Lady Bulldogs' have expected anything different in Thursday's season finale?
In the ultimate "win or stay home" game, the Camden boys basketball team will be sitting the AAA state playoffs out.
After a 14-year NFL playing career, Camden native Bobby Engram is about to open a new chapter in his football career.
Catching league-leading Darlington at the wrong time, Camden saw the fate of its season come down to Thursday night's regular season finale against Hartsville.
If India Robinson never kicked a soccer ball, the chances were pretty good that colleges would still be knocking at her door, trying to attract the Camden High School senior to their institution of higher learning.
The Camden Bulldog Club continues its efforts to support the athletic programs of the school throughout the school year.
As he took his official visit to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio last weekend, Alvonta` Jenkins got a good look at the campus, met with members of the school's football coaching staff, took in a basketball game and toured the town.
If the Camden High boys basketball team is to continue its stretch of playing in the AAA state playoffs, it has plenty of work to do and just four regular season games left in which to do it.
Games like these are not the ones you want to go into at anything less than 100 percent.
An unconventional offense has led the Camden boys' basketball team to trying to undo everything which they have been taught to do since they first started playing the game.
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In Rails Session Management Howto, Part III of this series, I described memory based session storage approaches. The mem_cache_store approach provides fast access to the session data and unparalleled scaling, but doesn't provide rock solid reliability (because it is ultimately a cache). It also maybe overkill for a lot of applications. In this post, I will discuss the final approach which is database based sessions.
There are a couple of options. The first is to use DRb storage. With the drb_store, the session data is marshaled to a DRb server. The DRb server is accessible from multiple servers so you can scale out to many servers for your application. And it is also reliable. DRb stands for distributed Ruby and more information about DRb and DRb server is available in Intro to DRb. Performance is reported to be very solid with DRb based session storage.
The second option is to utilize the built in Active Record capability of rails. I like the active_record_store because it is easy to configure and immediately provides scalability and reliability to session data storage. Performance is largely dependent on the database server infrastructure, which is a well know field and has many different optimization possibilities. Rails provides a simple way to configure the sessions by running rake db:sessions:create. Then you can just run the migration to create the table via rake db:migrate.
As pointed out by the authors of Agile Web Development with Rails, the proper choice of session storage is uniquely application and environment driven. There is an older study, by Scott Barron comparing the performance of some of these approaches. Although the results might have changed slightly, the considerations and insights are still probably very valid.
I personally use the active_record_store as my default approach. It requires no special outside expertise to implement and for most applications it is scalable and reliable. What do you use?