Pre-Processing Big Data: Techniques to improve quality of big data analysis

In an increasingly digitalised world, the value of information grows ever higher. Winning organisations – whether in financial services or any other vertical sector – will be those who can harness the power of data analytics to develop microscopic levels of insight and foresight into customer behaviours and operational activities in order to make progressive improvements on a continuous basis. Product development informed by factual evidence rather than educated guesswork, or real-time risk management based on a hyper-accurate picture of exposures, bring significant internal and external benefits.

However, while banks want to get closer to their customers, is the feeling mutual? Data privacy is a very sensitive issue, and the perception of what constitutes intrusion will likely vary between individuals. Institutions, therefore, need to walk a fine line between what’s genuinely useful and what’s genuinely creepy.

During this webinar, a panel of respected subject matter experts will discuss and dissect the key issues related to the widespread use of data analytics in financial services, identifying the obstacles which need to be overcome and the enablers that will drive FS forward successfully.

Personal data is a highly valuable asset. The winners of the future will be the organisations that make privacy intrinsic to data innovation. Join this webinar to learn how emerging best practices and technological solutions are helping financial institutions tackle data privacy in analytics and ML and drive commercial benefit.

Privitar is a leading privacy engineering software company. Privitar enables organisations to use, share and derive insight data safely. Privitar creates opportunities by allowing broader use of valuable information assets for collaboration and sharing, whilst reducing the risk associated with storing, processing and using sensitive data due to data breaches, regulatory penalties and the misuse of data.

Radiant is a robust tool for business analytics and running sophisticated models without any need for code development. It leverages the functions and tools in R and at the same time provides a user-friendly interface. With Radiant, you can manipulate and visualize your data, run different models from simple OLS to decision trees (CART) and neural networks, and evaluate your results.

The application is based on the Shiny package and can be run locally or on a server. Radiant was developed by Vicent Nijs. In this webinar, we review the tools available in Radiant and explain how easily you can use this tool without any setup or installation on your system.

Radiant key features:

• Explore: Quickly and easily summarize, visualize, and analyze your data
• Run different models: OLS, GLM, Neural Networks, Naïve Bayes and CART.
• Cross-platform: It runs in a browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Reproducible: Recreate results and share work with others as a state-file or an Rmarkdown report
• Programming: Integrate Radiant's analysis functions with your own R-code
• Context: Data and examples focus on business applications

After this webinar you will learn:

• Data manipulation and running different models
• How to run advanced analytics in a browser on any device even in your tablet or iPad.


Presenter bio:

Ali has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience in financial modeling, quantitative modeling, and financial risk management in several US banks.

From automated vehicles to ride hailing apps, transportation as we know it is changing - and fast. But new technologies alone won't help communities build the efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation networks communities want. In fact, these innovative technologies could do just the opposite, especially if they are not deployed wisely. Cities must collect the right data and enact the right policies to ensure they do not exacerbate problems like inequity and traffic, and to hold themselves accountable to the promise of new mobility technologies.

In this webinar, you will find out why - and how - the smartest cities of tomorrow will be those that adopt data-driven transportation strategies today. Join for Laura Schewel's presentation to gain insights into:

• Why the status quo for transportation data collection is no longer good enough
• The types of Massive Mobile Data that are useful for transportation and urban planning
• Algorithmic processing techniques that are critical for making this data useful
• Case studies from California and Virginia that demonstrate why Massive Mobile Data drives more effective transportation planning
• A forward-looking blueprint for using Massive Mobile Data to maximize the potential benefits of new transportation technologies - and minimize negative impacts

Laura Schewel founded StreetLight Data, a mobility analytics provider, after spending more than a decade as an advanced transportation researcher and statistician at the Rocky Mountain Institute and FERC. She has particular expertise in transportation systems, sustainability and safety, and vehicle/system modeling and analysis.

IoT is a technology that has the potential to make us healthy, wealthy, and wise especially in healthcare. Healthcare is just now adopting IoT to improve patient outcomes and decrease the cost of care.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

- How to identify if an IoT solution will work for your use case.
- What others in healthcare are using IoT for.
- The challenges of IoT in healthcare

Whenever there is data, there is the chance to visualize it and gain valuable insights that can drive change and improvements. Governments have realized the potential that data holds for transforming our towns, cities, living spaces and communities to better address the needs of our modern society.

Governments may want to change public transport services to suit commuters who move away from city centers due to increasing living costs, or develop programs that deliver more support services to areas showing high incidences of mental illnesses, or simply monitor bike traffic to assess the necessity of additional cycle lanes and bike share programs in our capitals. Data and data visualization can help us identify the needs of our communities and can support us in addressing them effectively.

In this webinar Andy and Eva will present examples of Government using data to improve services for communities and will share how you can get involved through analyzing open data and becoming part of the wider 'dataviz' community.