PAW NYC Early Bird Ends Friday - PAW-Gov Is Next Week

Two days of content, more than 18 topics delivered by over 25 predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors, and government thought leaders

Unprecedented line-up of top Government Leaders and In-Depth Topics coming together at Predictive Analytics World for Government.  Download the newly released Conference Preview Guide

Predictive Analytics World for Government , September 12-13 in Washington, DC, is the first vendor-neutral predictive analytics conference for the government, designed to help agency managers understand how they can apply predictive analytics to more effectively and efficiently accomplish their mission.

Agenda Now Available

Highlights include:

• Case studies from Federal, State, and Local agencies such as IRS, Department of Justice, USDA Risk Management Agency, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Department of Treasury, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, New South Wales Department of Transportation, Mexico Tax Administration Service, NASA, and Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

• Hot topics and advanced methods covering fraud detection and prevention, text mining, law enforcement, food safety, grants management, hotspot detection, optimization of facilities, ensemble models, supervised/unsupervised predictive modeling, crowdsourcing, and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

• Workshop includes a full-day post-conference workshop by Predictive Analytics World for Government Conference Chair Dr. John Elder that complements the core conference program.  Dr. Elder's workshop agenda is located on the conference website:  Workshop Agenda

Featuring leading government predictive analytics practitioners including:

About Predictive Analytics World for Government:

Predictive analytics reduces fraud, waste, and abuse, automates manual processes, maximizes productivity of agency personnel, and drives smarter decisions by extracting actionable insights from the vast quantities of data within government agencies.

Predictive Analytics World for Government is for government executives, program managers, financial and HR managers, CIOs and CTOs, law enforcement, and analytics professionals, covering today's deployment of predictive analytics and data mining across government agencies and across software vendors. The conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources, empowering Federal, State, and Local government to achieve these objectives:

1. Drive Smarter Decisions from Data
2. Reduce Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
3. Automate Manual Processes
4. Prioritize Resources and Maximize Productivity
5. Detect Threats and Increase Security

Register Today. Save an additional 25% for each additional attendee from the same company registered at the same time.

To join the Predictive Analytics World for Government group on LinkedIn:  http://tinyurl.com/pawgov

PAW's NYC 2011 program is the richest and most diverse yet, featuring over 40 sessions across 3 tracks: 1) "All Audiences", 2) "Expert/Practitioner", 3) "Financial Services" -- so you can witness how predictive analytics is applied by ACE Cash Express, Blue Cross, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept., Citibank, Cox Communications, Fidelity, GE Capital, Heritage Provider Network, Infinity Insurance, Intuit, LinkedIn, Match.com, Microsoft, New Directions Behavioral Health, New South Wales Government, Overstock.com, Paychex, Inc., PayPal, Rebellion Research, United Group Holdings, USPS Office of Inspector General, YMCA, a top 5 international bank, a top global retailer, and three major US banks, plus insights from projects for Anheiser-Busch, the SSA, and Netflix.

PAW also features several full-day pre- and post-conference workshops that complement the core conference program. Workshop agendas include advanced predictive modeling methods, hands-on training, text analytics, a bootcamp and full-day intro to R (the open source analytics system), enterprise decision management, user-friendly deployment, and introductions to predictive analytics and to business analytics. Read more
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Featured Session (joint with Predictive Analytics World ):

Social Media Analysis for Market Prediction

In this session you will learn how Professor Bollen's team has analyzed large-scale Twitter data to yield accurate measurements of the public's mood state which in turn have been shown to contain predictive information with regards to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In addition you will learn how the team performed an analysis of longitudinal changes in individual user sentiment over hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to study the effects of social networking relations to evolving user mood states.

Click here for a complete, detailed session description

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