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March 2017
Predictive analytics and machine learning in one hour – a no-nonsense guide
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the value of predictive and advanced analytics, and machine learning. The session gets behind the hype to give you insight into what predictive analytics and machine learning really are, how they could make a difference to your organisation and how you can get started. Organisations like yours generally have a lot of data, often of many different types and held in different places, so struggle to make effective…
Find out more »An introduction to data-driven forecasting with SAS Forecast Studio
Millions of organisations worldwide depend on data-driven forecasting to inform critical decisions and planning. SAS® Forecast Studio is one of the most powerful platforms for accurate and practical forecasting in the analytical technology market. Employing a user-friendly, wizard-based interface, SAS® Forecast Studio unlocks all of the large-scale automatic forecasting, model building, and time series exploration capabilities available throughout the SAS platform. Join SmartVision on this webinar to see a live demo of SAS® Forecast Studio in action. During which you will…
Find out more »April 2017
Getting started with decision trees
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the application and value of using decision trees. This 45 minute session will give you a straightforward overview of how decision trees work and how they can be applied to solve a range of business problems. Using decision trees you can: Accurately predict who is most likely to respond to your marketing campaigns by generating response propensity scores Uncover critical relationships between descriptive, transactional and interaction data…
Find out more »Running a successful data mining project – an introduction to the CRISP DM methodology
When you’re starting out in data mining or predictive analytics it’s all to easy just to jump straight in and hope for the best, but projects approached in this way commonly fail. To maximize your chances of success, you need to apply a structured project management methodology to your data mining plan. The most commonly used such methodology is CRISP DM (cross industry process for data mining). The CRISP DM approach is widely used, robust and well-proven as well as…
Find out more »May 2017
Applying predictive analytics in the real world
There's a lot of talk about predictive analytics and big data at the moment but in amongst the hype how can you learn what it really means for you? Join this half day briefing session with like-minded individuals to gain a solid grounding and education on the terminology of advanced analytics, what’s possible and what to consider as you think about how predictive analytics could be benefiting your organisation. Business intelligence helps organisations learn about the past but predictive analytics delivers something beyond…
Find out more »Predictive modelling and big data using IBM SPSS Modeler with Apache Spark
Apache Spark is an open source, software platform that enables individuals, organisations and businesses of any type to conduct data processing, management and analysis on very large data volumes and to do it all lightening fast. Spark has been developed with speed and sophisticated analytics at its heart. IBM SPSS Modeler can now leverage Apache Spark providing an unrivalled data science and real-time analytics capability that blends the very best of open source and leading commercial software. This webinar provides an…
Find out more »Bridging the gap between business intelligence and predictive analytics with SAS Visual Analytics
Please join this free educational event in which we’ll be introducing and providing a live overview of SAS Visual Analytics.No matter the size of your organisation – or your data – with SAS Visual Analytics you can explore all relevant data quickly and easily. You can look at more options, uncover hidden opportunities, identify key relationships and make more precise decisions faster than ever before. Self-service, ad hoc visual data discovery and exploration put lightning-fast insights within everyone's reach. In…
Find out more »Machine learning made easy with BlueSky Statistics
Please join this free educational event in which we will be discussing the application of machine learning techniques and demonstrating how to easily build a random forest model using BlueSky Statistics. Random Forests are one of the most popular machine learning procedures and can be used to develop highly accurate predictions that estimate everything from campaign response to satisfaction and customer churn. To demonstrate the power of machine learning we’ll be using BlueSky Statistics, a new easy-to-use analytical tool based…
Find out more »Getting started with SPSS Statistics
You are invited to join us for this free educational event in which you’ll learn about IBM SPSS Statistics – one of the most highly-regarded analytical software platforms. There’s a lot of talk about big data and predictive analytics at the moment, and IBM SPSS Statistics is at the forefront of this current wave of interest as one of the most powerful yet accessible analytics tools available. If you’ve been thinking about how your organisation could benefit from predictive analytic…
Find out more »September 2017
Applying predictive analytics in the real world
There's a lot of talk about predictive analytics and big data at the moment but in amongst the hype how can you learn what it really means for you? Join this half day briefing session with like-minded individuals to gain a solid grounding and education on the terminology of advanced analytics, what’s possible and what to consider as you think about how predictive analytics could be benefiting your organisation. Business intelligence helps organisations learn about the past but predictive analytics delivers something beyond…
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