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Analytics Internships Panel
Interested in an analytics-focused internship? Unsure what skills or responsibilities your internship will entail? Not sure of the opportunities out there? Just curious about what analytics means at different companies? BD+A's Analytics Internship Panel will help answer these questions and more. We have 2nd year Kellogg students from Apple, Deloitte, Nike, and Starbucks joining us to chat about their analytics-enabled internships, the skills they developed over the summer, and their perspectives on how the companies that they worked for approached data and analytics in general.
*Lunch will be provided
Managing Analytics Talent
Professor Eric Leininger will lead a lunch-'n-learn on the crucial skill for any business leader of managing analytics talent. Prof. Eric Leininger joined the Kellogg School faculty full time in September, 2010, coming from McDonald's Corporation, where he was corporate senior vice president since 2004. Prof. Leininger was a member of McDonald's Senior Leadership Team, comprised of the business unit leaders and the global, C-suite functional leaders. His primary responsibility was consumer and business insights; additionally, he was the executive sponsor for McDonald's marketing training. Leading companies draw on Eric's expertise in building leading-edge consumer insights and marketing capabilities. Recent consulting assignments include Abbvie, Kimberly-Clark, Mattel, Merck Consumer Care, Novartis, Ulta, and U.S.Cellular.
Tue, Feb 4 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm REGISTER NOW
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Big Data: Success stories beyong HADOOP
John Schroeder is the co-founder and CEO of MapR, one of the big names of the Big Data revolution and a key provider and enabler of many of its biggest success stories. MapR was founded in 2009 and quickly established itself as a key vendor of Hadoop – the open source data and analytics framework responsible for powering much of Web 2.0. Today, the company provides Big Data applications across many industries from healthcare to finance. Read the full story
Text Analytics gurus debunk four Big Data myths
Could text analytics be the unsung hero of big data? Text analytics mines reams of often ephemeral, unstructured data — from a voice recording of a customer call to emails or a Tweet — for meaningful insights that can inform business decisions, be it a branding strategy or a product launch. And while retailers have hailed big data as the key to everything from delivering shoppers personalized merchandise offers to real-time metrics on product performance, the industry is mostly scratching its head on how to monetize all the data that’s being generated in the digital era. Read the full story
Competition: Predicting Product Purchase
Many factors contribute to a consumer’s decision to purchase a product: from perceived value to convenience to suitability of the product. The Seeker desires an algorithm to predict whether, after being presented with the cost, a customer will purchase a product, A large database of over 600,000 transactions and 72 independent variables is provided to train your algorithm. Real-time online algorithm scoring and leaderboard will be available for this Challenge.
This is a Reduction-to-Practice Challenge that requires submission of algorithm output for scoring, a written proposal, and a detailed description of the proposed algorithm. APPLY
Challenge 9933493
Deadline: January 18, 2016
Reward: $20,000
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
The conference goal is to provide a forum for industry professionals (executives and leading researchers) and students to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the global sports industry. MIT Sloan is dedicated to fostering growth and innovation in this arena, and the conference enriches opportunities for learning about the sports business world. The conference is open to anyone interested in sports. Tickets for the 2016 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference are NOW ON SALE.
Conference Dates: March 11-12, 2016
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
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Will Benter, Co-President
Jeff Hoffman, Co-President
Senanu Aggor, Academics
Kelly Jones, Academics
Ben Woodman, Alumni
Chester Liu, Careers
Katie Richardson, Corporate
Raghu Chirravuri, Corporate
Jenn Whitley, Finance
JP Tucker, Marketing
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