Dean Abbott

Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist at SmarterHQ

Applying data mining, data preparation, and data visualization methods to business and research problems since 1987. Data mining course instructor for wide variety of audiences, including analytics novices, seasoned analytics professionals, statisticians, and academics.

Specialties: Fraud Detection (tax compliance/avoidance, invoice fraud, credit card fraud) Association rules for automatic business rule discovery Customer Relationship Management (inbound/outbound response modeling, customer segmentation, survey analysis, lifetime planned giving)in insurance, non-profit, and banking industries.

Non-profit donation models; lifetime planned giving models. Understand of and explanation of algorithms–linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks, GMDH, decision trees

John Elder

John Elder

      John Elder Founder, Elder Research, Inc.   Dr. John Elder founded and heads the US's most experienced data science consulting team, with offices in Charlottesville, Virginia, Washington DC, Baltimore MD, and Raleigh, NC....

Michael Housman

Michael Housman

      Michael Housman Chief Scientific Officer, RapportBoost.ai   Human beings are poor decision makers. The field of behavioral economics has documented many cognitive biases - for example, over-confidence bias, loss aversion, outcome bias, hot...

Greg La Blanc

Greg La Blanc

      Gregory La Blanc Lecturer in Finance, Strategy, & Law Haas Finance Group Haas Economic Analysis & Policy Group Director of Data Science Initiative, IBI   At Haas, Greg LaBlanc teaches primarily in the areas of finance and strategy in...