Past Talks

Courses, Tutorials, and Speaking Engagements

"The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes" Dr. John Elder, PAW-GOV; Washington, DC; September 14, 2011.

"The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes" Dr. John Elder, PAW-NYC; New York City, New York, October 21, 2011.

"Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: Extracting Value from Tables, Text, and Links" Dr. John Elder; 2-Day Course, Charlottesville, VA; September 26-27, 2011.

Association of Inspectors General 2011 Spring Conference, Dr. John Elder, "Needles in a Haystack: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics to Prioritize Leads and Highlight Risk" and "Anti-Fraud Data Mining Tool", Chicago, IL; May 19-20, 2011.

Pharmaceutical Management Science Association Conference Tutorial, Dr. John Elder, "The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes", Miami, FL; May 2, 2011.

Predictive Analytics World (PAW) San Francisco, Dr. John Elder, 1-day course, The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes, March 16, 2011.

PAW 2011 San Francisco, Dr. John Elder, Lessons Learned, March 14th, 2011.

PAW 2011 San Francisco, Antonia de Medinaceli, Fighting the Good Fight, March 14th, 2011.

On Diversity, Complexity, and Regularization in Ensemble Models, Dr. Giovanni Seni, January 24, 2011 in Mountain View, CA.

Predictive Analytics World (PAW) November 2010, Dr. John Elder, Keynote Speaker and 1-day Course , November 15-17, 2010 in London, UK.

Predictive Analytics World (PAW) : "Kaboom! Predictive Analytics Hits the Mainstream." , Dr. John Elder, Panelist, November 16, 2010 in London, UK.

Capital One Statisticians, Dr. John Elder, Keynote Speaker, November 1, 2010.

2010 Teradata Partners Conference, Dr. John Elder, Session Speaker, October 24-28, 2010 in San Diego, CA.

SAS M2010 Data Mining Conference, Dr. John Elder, Keynote Speaker, October 25-26, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV.

Predictive Analytics World (PAW) October 2010, Dr. John Elder, Plenary Speaker and 1-day Course, October 19-21, 2010 in Washington, DC.

"Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: Extracting Value from Tables, Text, and Links," Dr. John Elder, Charlottesville, September 13-14, 2010.

Data Mining with Quantitative and Qualitative Data, Dr. John Elder, Webinar, September 1, 2010.

IEEE Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Data Mining in GrC2010, Dr. Giovanni Seni, Keynote Speaker, August 15, 2010 in Silicon Valley, CA.

Text Mining to Fast-Track Deserving Disability Applicants, Dr. John Elder, July 26, 2010 in Arlington, VA.

Business Intelligence: Competing on Analytics, Dr. John Elder, July 9, 2010 in Chantilly, VA.

2010 Netezza User Conference: "Enzee Universe", Dr. John Elder, Panel Participant, June 21-23, 2010 in Boston, MA.

SPSS/IBM Customer Advisory Board, Dr. John Elder, June 8-9, 2010 in Chicago, IL.

6th Annual Text Analytics Summit, "Government Case Study: The "Wild West" of Data Mining and Predictive Analytics," Dr. John Elder, Boston, May 25th - 26th.

Statsoft Webinar - "Unstructured Data Yields Diamonds: A Survey of Text Mining Projects" presented by ERI Research Scientist Dr. Andrew Fast and StatSoft VP Dr. Thomas Hill; March 26th, 2010.

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Data Mining Camp, Expert Panel (See Video), Dr. Giovanni Seni, March 20th 2010, San Francisco, CA.

Lecture on Data Mining to the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, John Elder, November 3, 2009.

SAS M2009 Data Mining Conference, John Elder, Las Vegas, NV, October 26-27, 2009.
Predictive Analytics World Conference, One-Day Course, Case Studies Talk: "The High ROI of Data Mining for Innovative Organizations", and Book-Signing, John Elder, and Case Study in Fraud Detection, Antonia de Medinaceli, Washington, DC, October 20-22, 2009.

World Class Predictive Analytics Conference, One-Day Course, John Elder, Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 8-9, 2009.

Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing Technology and Tools Symposium, MITRE, "Text Mining Lessons Learning from Real Applications," Dr. John Elder, and "Breakthroughs Using Ensembles--A Committee of Models," Dr. Cheryl Howard, July 27, 2009.

15th Annual KDD Conference, Paris, France; ERI Participating Officers: John Elder, General Chair; Antonia de Medinaceli, Sponsorship Co-Chair; JR Lawhorne, Webmaster

KDD Conference 2009, "Organizational Traits Leading to High ROI for Dating Mining," Antonia de Medinaceli, Paris, France, June 29, 2009.

New York University's Stern School of Business, "Data Mining in Action," John Elder, New York, NY, April 20, 2009.

One-Day Seminar, Predictive Analytics World Conference, "The Best and Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes," John Elder, San Francisco, CA, February 20, 2009.

The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, M.S. in Management of Information Technology Program, talk by John Elder, Charlottesville, VA, February 12, 2009.

5th Annual Predictive Modeling for Underwriting Conference, John Elder, Orlando, FL, January 28-30, 2009.
SAS Forum Mexico, "A Field Guide to Text Mining," Antonia de Medinaceli, Mexico City, November 13, 2008.

SAS Data Mining Conference, "A Field Guide to Text Mining: An overview of the people, tools, and research frontiers that are unlocking the predictive power of text," Zach Buckner, Las Vegas, NV, October 27-28, 2008.

11th International Business Rules Forum, "Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes," John Elder, Orlando, FL, October 26-30, 2008.

INFORMS 2008, "Challenges Facing Data and Texts Miners in 2008 and Beyond," October 13, 2008.

National Institutes of Health Expert Panel: Flies, Monkeys and Supercomputing Highways Workshop, John Elder, Seatte, WA, August 19-20, 2008.

Milliman Casualty Consultants Forum, John Elder, keynote address, Denver, CO, June 27, 2008.

Insurance Data Managment Association, 2008 Annual Seminar, John Elder, keynote speaker, Philadelphia, PA, March 10-11, 2008.

UVA Accelerated Master's Degree Program Seminar, Charlottesville, VA, November 2, 2007.

10^th International Business Rules Forum, Presentation and panel member discussing "Emerging Trends," Orlando, FL, October 25, 2007.

Casualty Actuarial Society's Predictive Modeling Seminar, Keynote, Las Vegas, NV, October 11, 2007.

13^th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2007) From Trees to Forests and Rule Sets -- A Unified Overview of Ensemble Methods, Tutorial, San Jose, CA, August 12, 2007
McIntire School of Commerce Data Mining and Project Workshops, Charlottesville, VA, March 14, 2007
Workshop on Sampling for Compliance Applications, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, November, 2006
12^th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2006), Philadelphia, PA, August 20-23, 2006
Salford Systems Data Mining Conference 2006, Keynote, San Diego, CA, March 31, 2006
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Keynote, Houston, TX, November 27-30, 2005
Salford Systems Data Mining Conference 2005, Plenary, New York, March 28-30, 2005
Virginia Piedmont Technology Council, Luncheon Talk, Charlottesville, VA, July 8, 2004
Advanced Research Techniques Forum, American Marketing Association, Tutorials, Whistler, BC, June 13 & 16, 2004
2004 Midwest Biopharmaceutical Workshop, Workshop: "Top 10 Mistakes with Large Data", Muncie, IN, May 25, 2004.
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Tutorial, Lake Buena Vista, FL, April 22, 2004.
CART Conference, Salford Systems, Plenary, San Francisco, CA, March 23, 2004.
IEEE Central Virginia Section, Dinner Speaker, Charlottesville, VA, March 16, 2004
KDD-2003, "The Top Ten Data Mining Mistakes -- and How to Avoid Them," Washington, DC, August 24-27, 2003.
Data Mining Solutions Center, University of Alabama-Huntsville, Colloquium, Huntsville, AL, November 26, 2003.
Rice University Department of Statistics, Colloquium, Houston, TX, November 7, 2003.
CLADAG 2003,"Data Mining Between Exploration Need and Decision Models", Bologna, Italy, September 23, 2003.
National Security Agency, Research Branch, "Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes," Fort Meade, MD, April 15, 2003.
"Data Mining in the Real World," University of Maryland Panel Discussion, Dr. Cheryl Howard, Invited Panelist, 2003.

"Data Mining in the Financial Domain," Fannie Mae, Dr. Cheryl Howard, Invited Speaker, 2003.
, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A Survey of Modern Data Mining Algorithms," Vail, CO, June 2, 2002.
Univ. of Tennessee C. Warren Neel Conference, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A Survey of Modern Data Mining Algorithms," Knoxville, TN, June 24, 2002.
Institute for Professional Education, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A Survey of Modern Data Mining Algorithms," Arlington, VA, September 9-10, 2002.
M2001 Conference, "Complexity", Cary, NC, October 3, 2001.
American Marketing Association: Advanced Research Techniques (ART) Forum Amelia Island, Fl, June 27, 2001.
The Pharmaceutical Management Science Association, Marco Island, Fl, May 2, 2001.
SMU Symposium: "Nonparametrics in Large, Multidimensional Data Mining, "Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes", Dallas, TX, January 13, 2001.
19th Annual ICFC-International Communications Conference, "Data Mining: An Overview of Process, Techniques, and Tools," Dr. Cheryl Howard, Invited Speaker
M2000: Data Mining Technology Course, "Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes", Cary, NC, October 3-4, 2000.
New Approaches to Financial Economics, "Creating a Portfolio of Data Mining Models", Santa Fe, NM, October 2-3, 2000.
Darden Business School, "Data Mining", a section of "Managing the Information Age Organization", Charlottesville, VA, Spring 2000.
American Statistical Association, Chicago Chapter, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data", Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, IL, October 28-29, 1999.
National Security Agency, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A Survey of Modern Data Mining Algorithms", Ft. Meade, MD, August 26, 1999.
XXII Systems Engineering Conference, "Evaluation and Application of Data Mining Tools", (a 3-hour overview with simultaneous translation into Spanish), Santiago, Chile, July 14, 1999.
American Statistical Association, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A Survey of Modern Data Mining Algorithms", San Diego, CA, June 24-25, 1999.
Conference on the Interface between Computing and Statistics, 'Data Mining", Schaumburg, IL (near Chicago), June 9, 1999.
Greater Boston DAMA Day 1998, "New Advances in Data Mining", Cambridge, MA, Monday, November 30, 1998.
The Fifth Great Lakes Symposium on Applied Statistics, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A survey of modern Data Mining algorithms", Kalamazoo, MI, October 20-21, 1998.
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, "Modern Data Mining Methods", San Diego, CA, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Sunday, October 11, 1998.
National Security Agency, "Statistical-Based Data Mining Tools for Pattern Discovery", Ft. Meade, MD, Sept. 14-17, 1998.
International Communications Forecasting Conference, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A survey of modern Data Mining algorithms", Illinois State University, Normal, IL, June 8-9, 1998.
1998 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, "Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A survey of modern Data Mining algorithms", St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM, June 3-5, 1998.
29th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, "Fusing Diverse Algorithms," 1997.

"A New Method for Predicting Shoreline Positions from Historical Data," Journal of Coastal Research 9, no. 1: 147-171, 1993.