Nate Silver to Headline Discovery Summit 2013

Jessica Marquardt
Jessica Marquardt|February 21, 2013

He’s a sabermetrician. And a psephologist. And if those fancy titles don’t pique your interest, you should know that Nate Silver is a serious statistician. Silver has become famous for: Developing a widely acclaimed system called PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), which predicts player performance, career development [...]

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Discovery Summit live blog: Willy Shih on restoring American competitiveness

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|September 13, 2012

Willy Shih is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He teaches Technology and Operations Management, and Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise. He also teaches in the Executive Education program. His keynote speech at Discovery Summit 2012 is about restoring American competitiveness in manufacturing, a talk based [...]

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Discovery Summit live blog: Antonia de Medinaceli on predictive analytics

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|September 12, 2012

Antonia de Medinaceli is the Director of Fraud Analytics at Elder Research Inc. Her keynote speech focuses on using data mining and predictive analytics to find fraud, waste and abuse, and begins at 9:15 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Sept. 12. View the live blog. tags: Analytics, Discovery Summit, Discovery Summit [...]

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Discovery Summit live blog: Ian Ayres on predictive analytics and incentives

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|September 11, 2012

Ian Ayres is a lawyer and an economist. He is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School, the Anne Urowsky Professorial Fellow in Law, and a Professor at Yale’s School of Management. He is the author of Super Crunchers and Carrots and Sticks. He delivers a keynote speech [...]

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Discovery Summit live blog: John Sall on big data, big statistics

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|September 11, 2012

John Sall is SAS Executive Vice President and co-founder. He is also the creator of JMP and remains its chief architect. His keynote speech at Discovery Summit 2012 is about big data and big statistics. The hourlong talk and live blogging begin at 9:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 11. [...]

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Discovery Summit app and live coverage

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|September 10, 2012

Discovery Summit, the annual JMP analytics conference, starts today with an opening dinner. Keynote speeches begin tomorrow, and you can follow them from afar via our live blogs, which combine photos, Twitter updates and bloggers’ comments and reports. Live blogs will appear here at the JMP Blog and on our [...]

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‘What if the secret to success is failure?’

Anne Bullard
Anne Bullard|September 23, 2011

That intriguing headline on The New York Times Magazine cover caught my eye as I settled into my seat on the Raleigh-bound flight from Denver last Sunday. In addition to the hot pink magazine front, what prompted my double take was the coincidence of timing. Just two days earlier, author [...]

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Meet keynote speaker John Sall

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|August 16, 2011

John Sall, JMP’s leader and a leader in the field of analytics, will deliver a keynote speech the first full day of Discovery Summit 2011 in Denver next month. Co-founder and Executive Vice President of SAS, John joins Jeff Ma, David Salsburg and Jonah Lehrer in the lineup of featured [...]

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Meet keynote speaker David Salsburg

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|July 25, 2011

On Thursday, Sept. 15, at Discovery Summit in Denver, our keynote speaker will be David Salsburg, who wrote the book The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century. David has had an impressive career that includes academia, industry and writing books. He was the highest rated [...]

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Meet Keynote Speaker Jeffrey Ma

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|April 29, 2011

As part of our amazing lineup of keynote speakers that includes Jonah Lehrer, author and entrepreneur Jeffrey Ma will be joining us on the first full day of Discovery Summit in Denver. Jeff is the inspiration for the movie 21 and the book Bringing Down the House, which are both [...]

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