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Data Mining Training and Workshop
Sponsored by the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia
and Salford Systems

Training: June 5-7, 2006
Workshop: June 8, 2006

Location:
Australian Graduate School of Management Lecture Theatre
Number 1 O'Connell Street
Sydney, Australia

Objective: The training and workshop are aimed at bringing together
researchers and practitioners to learn about data mining technology
from
practical and theoretical experts. Expect to exchange ideas and
experiences focused on the practice of both data mining and the real
world analysis of complex data.

REAL-WORLD CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS: Business, Biomedical and
Operations
Research Applications
See Program details below.

TRAINING and MODELLING STRATEGIES
See Details below.

To be added to the conference mailing list, please register your
interest at: http://www.salforddatamining.com/2006InfoRequest.php
Alternatively, respond to this email with the Subject: SYDNEY.

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PROGRAM

BANKING:
Andrew Cathie, GE Money
"Application Score Card Development for a Consumer Finance Product"

Rita Chakravarti, Citibank, N.A.
"Bureau Policy Development and Better Targeting in Consumer Business
Using CART"

EPIDEMIOLOGY and PUBLIC HEALTH:
Dr. Shenghan Lai, Johns Hopkins University Medical School
"MARS, CART, TreeNet/MART for Epidemiological Research: Identifying
Relationships That Cannot Be Identified In Any Other Way"

Dean McKenzie, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
Monash University
"Hazardous or Harmful Alcohol Use in Royal Australian Navy
Veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: Identification
of High Risk Subgroups"

INSURANCE/ACTUARIAL:
Inna Kolyshkina, Price Waterhouse Coopers
"Text Mining in the Insurance Industry"

Richard Brookes, Taylor Fry Consulting Actuaries and Mitchell
Prevett,
Price Waterhouse Coopers
"Statistical Case Estimation Modelling - An Overview of the NSW
WorkCover Model"

Charles Pollack, Suncorp Metway Actuarial Services
"Experiences Applying Insurance Tasks to the New CART 6 Software:
Customer Retention and Data Analytics"

LOGISTICS and OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Bradley Utz, Schneider National, Inc.
"Using Classification Trees to Explain Failure to Deliver On-Time"

MARKET RESEARCH and CRM:
David McCloskey, Pathfinder Solutions
"Achieving Better Insights Into Customer Behaviour Through
Integrating
Market Research with Decision Tree Behaviour Modelling"

MICROARRAY:
Svetlana Shchegrova, Agilent Technologies
"Microarrays: Training Microarrays to Measure DNA Copy Number"

TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Inna Kolyshkina, Price Waterhouse Coopers
"Text Mining in the Telecommunications Industry"

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TRAINING and MODELLING STRATEGIES
"Tutorials Introducing CART , MARS, TreeNet, MART and RandomForests"

"New Features in CART and TreeNet"

"Creative Use of Data Mining to Win Two Top Data Mining Competitions"
"Combining Linear and Non-Linear Modelling Techniques: Getting the
Best of Two Worlds"

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Please feel free to forward this email to any colleagues who might be
interested in attending.

Best regards,
Lisa Solomon
Salford Systems
Phone: 001-619-543-8880
Fax: 001-619-543-8888
E-mail: lisas@...
Website: www.salforddatamining.com