Richard D. De Veaux is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. De Veaux delivers the keynote speech on the second full day of Discovery Summit 2013. View the live blog.
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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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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