May 21: Minnesota Predictive & Social Media Analytics, Big Data Day

The event is free and is organized by MinneAnalytics. Confirmed speakers include Robert Stephens, Founder Geek Squad, CTO BestBuy, and Robert Cooley, CTO, OptiMine Software.

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MinneAnalytics ( www.minneanalytics.org/ ), is a Minnesota non-profit serving the community of Analytics people in Minnesota, currently with over 2200 members. It is planning a

"Predictive & Social Media Analytics and the world of Big Data" conference for May 21st at Medtronic in Minnesota. This event, and membership is free.

Sponsors include IBM and EMC, and currently the event has 175 signups and several hundred more are expected.

Registration page: minneanalytics.eventbrite.com/

Confirmed speakers include:

• Robert Stephens, Founder Geek Squad, CTO BestBuy.
• Robert Cooley, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, OptiMine Software
  "Web Analytics"
• Dave Anderson, Senior Director, Optum Insight Innovation Lab:
  Natural History of Disease (NHD). (really cool).
• Jaideep Srivastava, U of M:
  Mining of social media data to identify "Actionable Insights from Social Systems" and Analytics for fraud detection.