Tag: Innovators’ Summit

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Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Baker to Speak at JMP Conferences

You know Malcolm Gladwell's books: Outliers, Blink and The Tipping Point. All three hit No. 1 on The New York Times best-sellers list. Now you can hear Malcolm Gladwell live and in person. JMP has lined him up as the keynote speaker for the Discovery and Innovators' Summit conferences in

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Watch Analytics Webcast by Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge

It is not too late to register to watch a live Webcast about predictive analytics by data visualization expert Stephen Few on Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. Registration is free. Few will explain how to build predictive models that will display information so that our eyes can perceive relationships and

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Concurrent Sessions at Innovators' Summit 2008

You may have seen the live blog we produced for the morning plenary sessions on Thursday and Friday , Sept. 25 and 26, at the Innovators' Summit. The afternoon concurrent sessions at the Summit showcased all sorts of fascinating uses of analytics -- from understanding what consumers want in products

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Books Recommended by Innovators' Summit Dinner Hosts

The table hosts for the Welcome Dinner each chose a book to be given to their fellow diners. By popular demand, here are the books they selected for the Summit: Sam Savage: Flaw of Averages by Sam Savage Avinash Kaushik: Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik John

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A Strong Voice at Twin Cities JMP Users Group Meeting

The inaugural meeting of the Twin Cities JMP Users Group will feature a talk by a Minneapolis-based Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Strong Shih-Chuang Huang. Huang is involved in Six Sigma program implementation for Beckman Coulter worldwide, a manufacturer of biomedical diagnostic systems, reagent tests and supplies. Huang's presentation, "Breakthrough

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5 Questions with Avinash Kaushik of Google

Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist for Google, talked with John Jones of JMP while both were at a conference in June. Here’s part of their 20-minute conversation, which actually included more than five questions and answers. Kaushik’s answers in the Q&A below are just the beginning of his engaging and informative

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Measuring Innovation

Don't dismiss innovation as a fluffy, overused term that businesspeople, politicians and academics throw around. You can define it. You can classify it. And you can even try to quantify it. The federal government has decided that the United States should try to quantify innovation. Why? "The United States today