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Political Campaign Data Science

Yesterday, there was a meetup in Arlington on Political Campaign Data Science with a panel of four experts to talk about their work. As we have all heard, the 2012 Presidential election was steeped in data like never before, with the Obama campaign in particular using advanced analytical methods to target voters, and with Nate Silver and other polling aggregators providing fascinating insights into the dynamics of the campaign. Sasha Issenberg, author and journalist, summarized the ways that…See More
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Political Campaign Data Science

Yesterday, there was a meetup in Arlington on Political Campaign Data Science with a panel of four experts to talk about their work. As we have all heard, the 2012 Presidential election was steeped in data like never before, with the Obama campaign in particular using advanced analytical methods to target voters, and with Nate Silver and other polling aggregators providing fascinating insights into the dynamics of the campaign. Sasha Issenberg, author and journalist, summarized the ways that…See More
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"Hi Ganesh, This is a four week course that began on July 20.  It is asynchronous, and you work at your own pace.  There is homework, however, that is due each Sunday, with the first one due July 29th, so there is still time to enroll and…"
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Natural Language Processing taught by Nitin Indurkhya at Online

July 20, 2012 at 6pm to August 17, 2012 at 7pm
This course is designed to give you an introduction to the algorithms, techniques and software used in natural language processing (NLP). Their use will be illustrated by reference to existing applications, particularly speech understanding, information retrieval, machine translation and information extraction. The course will try to make clear both the capabilities and the limitations of these applications.See More
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Political Campaign Data Science

Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:51am 1 Comment

Yesterday, there was a meetup in Arlington on Political Campaign Data Science with a panel of four experts to talk about their work. As we have all heard, the 2012 Presidential election was steeped in data like never before, with the Obama campaign in particular using advanced analytical methods to target voters, and with Nate Silver and other polling aggregators providing fascinating insights into the dynamics of the campaign. Sasha Issenberg,…

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Target's methodology for predicting which customers are pregnant.

Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:30am 1 Comment

The pregnancy story took a while to propagate, but, with its arrival in the NY Times Magazine, is now widespread.  What will the 2012 story be? 

Here at Statistics.com, we predict:

On June 26, 2012, Mei Mei Lim from Accenture described how Nokia Siemens Networks built a predictive model for rapid identification of churn "triggers."  The model lets a cell carrier take corrective actions and offer enticements…

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